Thomas Paine: “In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity.”

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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

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.