Thomas Paine — "The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant …"

"It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies."

"The only religion that can stand the test of time is that which is founded on the immutable principles of good and evil."

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love an…"

"By the universal economy of nature it is known, and by the instance of the Jews it is proved, that the human species has a tendency to degenerate, in any small number of persons, when separated from t…"

"A man's religion is not to be inquired into, not even by the state itself."