Thomas Paine: “We are now really another people, and cannot again go back to ignorance and prejudice.”

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

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.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.