Thomas Paine: “There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be…”

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

The argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?