Never were more pains taken to instruct and enlighten mankind, and to make them see that their interest consisted in their virtue, and not in their revenge, than have been displayed in the Revolution of France.
Paine asserts that the French Revolution uniquely prioritized the instruction and enlightenment of humanity, emphasizing virtue over revenge.
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The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.
To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.
It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.