Useless Knowledge Can Be Made Directly Contributory

It Would Seem That In Paine's View The Code Of Government Should Be That Of The Legendary King Pausole, Who Prescribed But Two Laws For His Subjects, The First Being, Hurt No Man, And The Second, Then Do As You Please.

Americans Have A Strange Notion That The Ordinary Laws Of Economics Do Not Apply To Them. So Doubtless They Will Think They Are Prosperous If The Boom Starts, And That Deficits And Indebtedness Are Merely Signs Of How Prosperous They Are.

The Civilization Of A Country Consists In The Quality Of Life That Is Lived There, And This Quality Shows Plainest In The Things That People Choose To Talk About When They Talk Together, And In The Way They Choose To Talk About Them.

The State, On The Other Hand, Both In Its Genesis And By Its Primary Intention, Is Purely Anti-social. It Is Not Based On The Idea Of Natural Rights, But On The Idea That The Individual Has No Rights Except Those That The State May Provisionally Grant Him. It Has Always Made Justice Costly And Difficult Of Access, And Has Invariably Held Itself Above Justice And Common Morality Whenever It Could Advantage Itself By So Doing.

When Politicians Say "i'm In Politics," It May Or May Not Be Possible To Trust Them, But When They Say, "i'm In Public Service," You Know You Should Flee.