Thomas Paine: “The greatest characters the world have known have arisen on the democratic floor.”

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

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.