Thomas Paine: “Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as…”

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

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.