Thomas Paine: “They had every thing to learn but the principles which supported them, and every thing to procure that was necessary for…”

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.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

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.