"Government has no right to make itself..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the 'end of time,' or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.”

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”

“He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.”

“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”

“We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.”

“If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.”

“Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended”

“In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.”

“I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.”