Thomas Paine: “When once such a vicious system is established it becomes the guard and protection of all inferior abuses.”

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.