Thomas Paine: “We can look back on our own prejudices, as if they had been the prejudices of other people.”

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.

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.

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