Thomas Paine: “A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.”

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

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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.