Thomas Paine: “The conqueror considered the conquered, not as his prisoner, but his property.”

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.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

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.

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.