Thomas Paine: “This is the general character of aristocracy, or what are called Nobles or Nobility, or rather No-ability, in all…”

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.

The present age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason, and the present generation will appear to the future as the Adam of a new world.

It serves to keep up deceitful expectations which prevent people from looking into the defects and abuses of government.

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.