Thomas Paine: “Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage, than any victory with all its expense.”

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

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.

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.

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