Thomas Paine: “Is the path so elegantly smooth, so decked on every side, and carpeted with joys, that wretchedness is wanting to enrich…”

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt 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 animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…