Thomas Paine: “Insolence is sure to provoke hatred, whether in a nation or an individual.”

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

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