Thomas Paine: “All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation.”

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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.

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.