Thomas Paine: “The management of Lord Shelburne, whatever may be his views, is a caution to us, and must be to the world, never to…”

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.

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

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.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.