Thomas Paine: “The independence of America is at this moment as firmly established as that of any other country in a state of war.”

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

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

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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.