Thomas Paine: “The politics of Britain, so far as respected America, were originally conceived in idiotism, and acted in madness.”

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

The argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?

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.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.