Thomas Paine: “Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.”

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.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

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.

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