"When shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its Happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government."
                                          
                                       ---Thomas Paine