Thomas Paine: “It is better that the whole argument should come out than to seek to stifle it.”

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

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 Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.