Thomas Paine: “The annual revenue of France is nearly double that of England, and her number of inhabitants nearly twice as many.”

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.