Thomas Paine: “The punyism of a senseless word like Duke, Count or Earl has ceased to please.”

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

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.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.