Thomas Paine: “There is now an union of mind as well as of interest; and our hearts as well as our prosperity, call on us to support…”

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

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.