"A thing moderately good is not so..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.”

“Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured”

“Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.”

“Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.”

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”

“In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.”

“Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.”

“Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.”

“Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.”