The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

When Bonaparte returned from Italy he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address to him he declared that a statue of gold ought to be erected...

I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender – usually of rights – mine and others.

When you’re silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

If there be a people on earth whose more especial duty it is to be at all times prepared to defend the rights with which they are blessed, and to surpass all others in sustaining...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful....

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept...

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy … to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these...