Thomas Paine: “Pardoning the pun, it must be criminal justice indeed that should condemn a work as a substitute for not being able to…”

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

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

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…

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.