Some More Common Sense

...as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

-Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" 

Paine Collected Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1955. pg. 25.