Thomas Paine: “It is not their interest to cherish ignorance, but to dispel it.”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

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.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.