"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

thomas paine

Paine wrote The American Crisis and Common Sense. He highly influenced the revolution, especially the common people. His writings helped garner the common people's support of the Revolution.