Thomas Paine: “Can any thing be a greater inducement to a miserly man, than the hope of making his Mammon safe?”

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

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

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

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.