Thomas Paine Aristocracy Quotations

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.