Patrick Peterson

“Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from EVERY PART of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“As quickly as Kinemetrics repaired the wires, they were again—and repeatedly—cut in the dead of night by disgruntled union members in what Robertson later called “a continuing effort to sabotage the system.”
― Michael M. Greenburg, The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower

“The odd opinions and extravagant actions that men are led into by enthusiasm,” wrote Locke, “provide a sufficient warning against it; but many men ignore the warning, and once they have started to think they are receiving immediate revelation—illumination without search, and certainty without proof or examination—it is hard to cure them of this.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

“the reality was that I was caged in by that hedge and living off taxpayers’ money.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste