Thomas Paine

American Patriot

Advocate of revolutionary American independence, this quote is by Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the author of Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.

“If I were to try to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Abraham Lincoln

Sixteenth President of the United States”