Thomas Paine: “If I have any where expressed myself over-warmly, 'tis from a fixed, immovable hatred I have, and ever had, to cruel men…”

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.

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

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

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.