Thomas Paine: “There are cases in which it is as impossible to restore character to life, as it is to recover the dead.”

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

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.

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.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.