Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world? ✨ Thomas Paine (1995). Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76), p.595, Library of America
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