"To say that any people are not..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.”

“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.”

“Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.”

“Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.”

“Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)”

“Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.”

“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.”

“The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.”

“I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.”