Thomas Paine: “It reaches all mankind, and in matters which concern us, or concern us not, it alike provokes in us a desire to know…”

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

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.