Thomas Paine: “We have equalled the bravest in times of danger, and excelled the wisest in construction of civil governments.”

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

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.