“ The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. ”
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
~ Thomas Paine
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.