Patrick Peterson

“Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from EVERY PART of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“as Milton wisely expresses, "never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“As quickly as Kinemetrics repaired the wires, they were again—and repeatedly—cut in the dead of night by disgruntled union members in what Robertson later called “a continuing effort to sabotage the system.”
― Michael M. Greenburg, The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower

“Intolerance blooms in the soil of our faulty logic.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us