Thomas Paine: “Yet let but a nation conceive rightly of its character, and it will be chastely just in protecting it.”

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

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

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.