Thomas Paine: “Representation was a thing unknown in the ancient democracies.”

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.

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

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

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.