Thomas Paine: “Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.”

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

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.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.