Thomas Paine: “Our feelings, imprisoned by their magnitude, find no way out--and, in the struggle of expression, every finger tries to…”

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

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

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.

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.