Thomas Paine: “The larger we make the circle, the more we shall harmonize, and the stronger we shall be.”

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.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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.

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.