Thomas Paine: “A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was…”

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

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 argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?

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.