"No nation ought to be without a..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“The more we bestow the richer we become.”

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

“...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”

“There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.”

“I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.”

“One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.”

“It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”

“As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.”

“There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money”