Thomas Paine: “It is the man and not the apology that is demanded.”

There is, therefore, no power but the voluntary will of the people that has a right to act in any matter respecting a general reform; and by the same right that two persons can confer on such a subject, a thousand may.

I have no idea, considering the reforms which are now passing and spreading throughout Europe, that England will permit herself to be the last; and where the occasion and the opportunity quietly offer, it is better than to wait for a…

Never did so great an opportunity offer itself to England, and to all Europe, as is produced by the two Revolutions of America and France.

The insulted German and the enslaved Spaniard, the Russ and the Pole, are beginning to think.