Thomas Paine: “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”

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.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?