Thomas Paine: “A considerable part of which is expended in litigations, in which the poor, instead of being relieved, are tormented.”

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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

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.