Thomas Paine: “Whether they mean strength or weakness, wisdom or folly, a child or a man, or the rider or the horse, is all equivocal.”

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

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 account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.