Thomas Paine: “The income of a common laborer, who is industrious, is equal to that of the generality of tradesmen in England.”

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

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

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

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.