Thomas Paine: “The natural right of the continent to independence, is a point which never yet was called in question.”

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

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.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.