"When men yield up the privilege of..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.”

“There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.”

“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”

“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”

“Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.”

“Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.”

“Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.”

“It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.”

“We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.”