Patrick Peterson

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

“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

“The odd opinions and extravagant actions that men are led into by enthusiasm,” wrote Locke, “provide a sufficient warning against it; but many men ignore the warning, and once they have started to think they are receiving immediate revelation—illumination without search, and certainty without proof or examination—it is hard to cure them of this.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us