Thomas Paine: “If taxes are necessary, they are of course advantageous; but if they require an apology, the apology itself implies an…”

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

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.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.