Thomas Paine: “All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny.”

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.