Thomas Paine: “It was not against Louis XVI. but against the despotic principles of the Government, that the nation revolted.”

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

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 must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.