The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the d… - Thomas Paine

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered;

the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Jesus Christ wrote no account of himself, of his birth, parentage, or anything else. Not a line of what is called the New Testament is of his writing.

A government or an administration, who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and consequently has nothing to conceal;