Thomas Paine: “There are two classes of people to whom the laws of England are particularly hostile, and those the most helpless…”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.