Thomas Paine: “Ah! this government of loaves and fishes has more mischief in it than people have yet reflected on.”

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

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

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.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.