Thomas Paine: “He is not free of the nation, in the same manner that a Frenchman is free of France, and an American of America.”

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

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 aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

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