Thomas Paine: “My attachment is to all the world, and not to any particular part, and if what I advance is right, no matter where or…”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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.

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

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.