Thomas Paine: “In forming a constitution, it is first necessary to consider what are the ends for which government is necessary?”

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.

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.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

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.