Thomas Paine: “If I ask a man in America if he wants a King, he retorts, and asks me if I take him for an idiot?”

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

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.