Thomas Paine: “The greatness of the deed demands respect; and though you may feel resentment, you are compelled both to wonder and…”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

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.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.