Thomas Paine
English born American revolutionary patriot and writer
(1737-1809)
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and
beneficence of God, manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
The Age of Reason
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.