Thomas Paine: “Under how many subtilties or absurdities has the divine right to govern been imposed on the credulity of mankind?”

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.