Thomas Paine: “All the great laws of society are laws of nature.”

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

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…

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.