Thomas Paine: “There is nothing which sets the character of a nation in a higher or lower light with others, than the faithfully…”

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.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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.