Thomas Paine: “She sees at once too clearly, that the happiness of mankind has no part in 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 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.

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.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.