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• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  -- Thomas Paine "Common Sense...
• What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
  Thomas Paine...
• Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil
  in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries *by a government*, which we might expect in a country *without government*, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer....
• We ought never to do wrong when people are looking. -- Mark Twai
• Remember this is for posterity, so be honest.