""Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing,..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.”

“There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.”

“For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree”

“As the government is, such will be the man.”

“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”

“You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.”

“We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.”

“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.”

“And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?”