Thomas Paine: “I know that the annals of the world hold out to us but rarely the august and majestic spectacle of a nation, which…”

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

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

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.