Thomas Paine: “He lives immured within the Bastille of a word, and surveys at a distance the envied life of man.”

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

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 more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.