Thomas Paine Quote

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes (ed. 1817)

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue...

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue...

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue...

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue...