Thomas Paine: “America is her own mistress and can do what she pleases.”

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.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

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