Thomas Paine: “As hereditary estates, the law has created the evil, and it ought also to provide the remedy.”

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…

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.