Thomas Paine: “What is it, but a bargain, which the parts of the government made with each other to divide powers, profits, and…”

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.

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.

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

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.