Thomas Paine: “To put a plain question; do you consider yourselves men or devils?”

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.