Thomas Paine: “In all my publications, where the matter would admit, I have been an advocate for commerce, because I am a friend to its…”

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.

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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