Thomas Paine: “Things like men are seldom understood rightly at first sight.”

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.