Robert

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured”
― Thomas Paine

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
― Thomas Paine

“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
― Thomas Paine