Thomas Paine: “A mind disarmed of its rage feels no pleasure in contemplating a frantic quarrel.”

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 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…

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

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