Thomas Paine: “Must England ever be the sport of hope, and the victim of delusion?”

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

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.