Thomas Paine: “Nothing but the sharpest essence of villany, compounded with the strongest distillation of folly, could have produced a…”

The argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

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

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…