Thomas Paine: “What I write is pure nature, and my pen and my soul have ever gone together.”

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.

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.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.