Thomas Paine: “By admitting a participation of the spoil, it makes itself friends; and when it ceases to do this it will cease to be…”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.