Thomas Paine: “It being proper and necessary, that, in a free country, the people should be as fully informed of the administration of…”

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

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

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.

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.