Thomas Paine: “It lost ground from contempt more than from hatred; and was rather jeered at as an ass, than dreaded as a lion.”

As to what are called national religions, we may, with as much propriety, talk of national Gods.

I presume, that though all the people of England pay taxes, not an hundredth part of them are electors, and the members of one of the houses of parliament represent nobody but themselves.

It serves to keep up deceitful expectations which prevent people from looking into the defects and abuses of government.

Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.