Thomas Paine:
        Common Sense
•“Of more worth
is one honest man
to society and
in the sight of God, than all the
crowned ruffians
that ever lived.”
In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.