Thomas Paine: “What is it, but a bargain, which the parts of the government made with each other to divide powers, profits, and…”

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.

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

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.