Thomas Paine: “This sort of superstition may last a few years more, but it cannot long resist the awakened reason and interest of man.”

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

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.

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

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.