Thomas Paine: “A constitution is the property of a nation, and not of those who exercise the government.”

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.