* "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case." (1795)<ref> Paine, "Dissertation on First Principles of Government," in ''The Writings of Thomas Paine,'' ed. Moncure D. Conway, vol. 3, p. 267 (1895). </ref> | * "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case." (1795)<ref> Paine, "Dissertation on First Principles of Government," in ''The Writings of Thomas Paine,'' ed. Moncure D. Conway, vol. 3, p. 267 (1895). </ref> |