Thomas Paine: “We see what a bitter, revengeful enemy we have to deal with, and any expense is cheap compared to their merciless paw.”

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

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…