Thomas Paine: “Look on this picture and weep over it! and if there yet remains one thoughtless wretch who believes it not, let him…”

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

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