Thomas Paine: “The general impulse of the Nation was right; but it acted without reflection.”

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

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

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

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.