Thomas Paine: “America has set you the example, and you may follow it and be free.”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.