Thomas Paine Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: February 9, 1737 - June 8, 1809
Birthday: February 9
Death: June 8
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.
source: Thomas Paine, John Dos Passos (2008). “The Essential Thomas Paine”, p.65, Courier Corporation
topic: Character, Names, Tree, Engraved, Continental, Oaks, Fracture
