Thomas Paine: “It has received its death-wound; and though it may linger, it will expire.”

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

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 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.