• We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

    Thomas Paine: We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.
    Thomas Paine (1990). “The Crisis Papers, 1776-1783”, p.136, Rowman & Littlefield