Thomas Paine: “What is called the splendour of a throne is no other than the corruption of the state.”

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

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

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…