Thomas Paine: “The rage was against the man, and he became the victim.”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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

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.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.