Famous quotes containing the words tom and/or paine:
“The palsy plagues my pulses”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 37)
“Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)