Thomas Paine: “Trade flourishes best when it is free, and it is weak policy to attempt to fetter it.”

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.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

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

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…