Thomas Paine: “There is a morning of reason rising upon man on the subject of government, that has not appeared before.”

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

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.

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