Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

A government of our own is our natural right: And when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.