Thomas Paine: “The ministers of Britain may rage as they please, but our part is to conquer their armies.”

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.