Thomas Paine: “When men are sore with the sense of oppressions, and menaced with the prospects of new ones, is the calmness of…”

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

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.

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.