Thomas Paine: “It is not so properly the motives which produced the alliance, as the consequences which are to be produced from it…”

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

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 thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…