Thomas Paine: “As the two are nearly the opposite of each other, consequently, the uncivilised state of the European governments is…”

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

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

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

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.