Thomas Paine: “You were known and dreaded abroad; and it would have been wise in you to have suffered the world to have slept…”

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

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.