Thomas Paine: “Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even…”

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.