Thomas Paine: “Were every minister in England a Chatham, it would now weigh little or nothing in the scale of American politics.”

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.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

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