Thomas Paine: “War never can be the interest of a trading nation, any more than quarrelling can be profitable to a man in business.”

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.