Thomas Paine: “The sovereign authority in any country is the power of making laws, and everything else is an official department.”

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.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.