Thomas Paine: “Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to re-establish it.”

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

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.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…