Thomas Paine: “It is impossible to practise a bad form on anything but a bad principle.”

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

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

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