Thomas Paine: “Bred up without morals, and cast upon the world without a prospect, they are the exposed sacrifice of vice and legal…”

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

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.

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

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