Thomas Paine: “When we speak of the crown now, it means nothing; it signifies neither a judge nor a general: besides which it is the…”

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.

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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