Thomas Paine: “It is generated in the dust and sweepings of other vices, and is of such a hateful figure that all the rest conspire to…”

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.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

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

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.