Thomas Paine: “THERE is a dignity in the warm passions of a Whig, which is never to be found in the cold malice of a Tory.”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

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