Thomas Paine: “Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of…”

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

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.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.