Thomas Paine: “While such governments continue, peace has not the absolute security of a day.”

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.