Thomas Paine: “OF all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity.”

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.

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.