Thomas Paine: “Like blood, it cannot be taken from any of the parts, without being taken from the whole mass in circulation, and all…”

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.

Nations, like individuals, who have long been enemies, without knowing each other, or knowing why, become the better friends when they discover the errors and impositions under which they had acted.

In those which proceed from the former cause, the temper becomes incensed and soured; and the redress, obtained by danger, is too often sullied by revenge.

When another nation shall join France, despotism and bad government will scarcely dare to appear.