Thomas Paine: “In short, you spend your substance in vain, and impoverish yourselves without a hope.”

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

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.