Thomas Paine: “There was a time when I felt the same prejudices, and reasoned from the same errors; but experience, sad and painful…”

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 account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

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.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.