That a government could not have always gone on by the same system which has been followed for the last seventy years, must be evident to every man; and for the same reason it cannot always go on.
Paine asserts in "Rights of Man" that a government system that has been in place for decades cannot indefinitely continue without change, implying its inherent unsustainability.
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It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.