Thomas Paine: “All the revolutions till then had been worked within the atmosphere of a court, and never on the grand floor of a…”

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.

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.