Understanding the #UnitedStatesofAmerica Common Sense by Thomas Paine - Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession (Paragraphs 24)

Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

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