Is is always necessary that the means that are to accomplish any end be equal to the accomplishment of that end, or the end cannot be accomplished. It is in this that the difference between finite and infinite power and wisdom discovers itself. Man frequently fails in accomplishing his ends, from a natural inability of the power to the purpose, and frequently from the want of wisdom to apply power properly. But is impossible for infinite power and wisdom to fail as man faileth. . . . The Creation speaks a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, mulitiplied and various as they be…It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed.
— Thomas Paine