Thomas Paine: “Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.”

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.