Thomas Paine: “But where genuine principles of liberty pervade a people, every thing is restored to order; and the soldier civilly…”

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

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

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