NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: "A GOLD STATUE SHOULD BE ERECTED TO [THOMAS PAINE] IN EVERY CITY IN THE UNIVERSE."  

“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 calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...” 
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense