Thomas Paine: “To hesitate or to despair are conditions equally unknown in America.”

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.