Thomas Paine: “The natural right of the continent to independence, is a point which never yet was called in question.”

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.

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

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.

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.