Thomas Paine: “England finds that she cannot conquer America, and America has no wish to conquer England.”

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

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.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.