Thomas Paine: “Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.”

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

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.