Thomas Paine: “Alas! are those people who call themselves Englishmen, of so little internal consequence, that when America is gone, or…”

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

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.