Thomas Paine: “The ragged relic and the antiquated precedent, the monk and the monarch, will moulder together.”

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

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

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

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.