Thomas Paine: “To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the…”

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.