Thomas Paine: “One extreme produces the other: to make one rich many must be made poor; neither can the system be supported by other…”

The object, in all such preliminary proceedings, is to find out what the general sense of a nation is, and to be governed by it.

Never did so great an opportunity offer itself to England, and to all Europe, as is produced by the two Revolutions of America and France.

It serves to keep up deceitful expectations which prevent people from looking into the defects and abuses of government.

As soldiers have hitherto been treated in most countries, they might be said to be without a friend.