The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.
Thomas PaineThe more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.
Thomas PaineIt is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.
Thomas Paine