Erin

“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone

“He alone is a man who keeps his word:
Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.”
― Guru Gobind Singh, Zafarnama

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense