Thomas Paine: “We had once the fetters that she has now, but experience has shewn us the mistake, and thinking justly, has set us…”

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

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.

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.

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