Thomas Paine: “The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.”

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

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.