Thomas Paine: “It is not now the time for little contrivances, or artful politics.”

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.