Hath your house been burnt? Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to … - Thomas Paine

Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.