Thomas Paine: “In this view, our taxes are properly our insurance money; they are what we pay to be made safe, and, in strict policy…”

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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.

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

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…