Thomas Paine: “Things like men are seldom understood rightly at first sight.”

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

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.