Thomas Paine: “Arbitrary power had not there torn any inhabitant from the arms of his family and friends, to drag him to a dreary…”

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.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

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

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