Thomas Paine: “You felt none for others; you deserve none for yourselves.”

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.