Thomas Paine: “Men have a right to reason for themselves, and though they cannot contradict the intelligence in the London Gazette…”

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

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.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.