• When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

    Thomas Paine: When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.
    Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.5