"We repose an unwise confidence in any..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.”

“A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.”

“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.”

“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

“Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.”

“An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.”

“Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.”

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.”