Thomas Paine: “Their fear discovers itself in their outrage, and they are but publishing the groans of a wounded vice.”

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.

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 Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

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.