When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
Thomas PaineThe graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
Thomas PaineI do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.
Thomas Paine