Thomas Paine: “To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right, is an expression I once used on a former occasion, and it is…”

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.

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

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

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.