Common Sense

With all that's going on in Congress these days, I just needed a little "Common Sense":

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a Spaniel.

-Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" 

Paine Collected Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1955. pg. 42.