Thomas Paine: “That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another.”

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.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.