Thomas Paine: “Thus aided and thus supported, disaffection will decline, and the withered head of tyranny expire in America.”

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…

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

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.

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