Thomas Paine: “It is an audacious outrage upon civil government, and cannot be too much exposed, in order to be sufficiently detested.”

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.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

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.