• Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

    Thomas Paine: Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
    Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield