Thomas Paine: “It is the whole country she is at war with, or must be at peace with.”

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.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.