Thomas Paine Quote

The individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.


Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. By Thomas Paine,... (ed. 1791)


The individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is ...

The individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is ...

The individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is ...

The individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is ...