It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.
Thomas PaineThe United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
Thomas PaineFor all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.
Thomas Paine