Thomas Paine: “I found the disposition of the people such, that they might have been led by a thread and governed by a reed.”

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.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.