Thomas Paine: “It is better that the whole argument should come out than to seek to stifle it.”

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.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

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.

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