Thomas Paine: “If there is a sin superior to every other, it is that of wilful and offensive war.”

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

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

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