Thomas Paine: “Britain, as a nation, is, in my inmost belief, the greatest and most ungrateful offender against God on the face of the…”

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

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

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.

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