Thomas Paine: “By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world.”

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.