What is the history of all monarchical governments but a disgustful picture of human wretchedness, and the accidental respite of a few years' repose?
Wearied with war, and tired with human butchery, they sat down to rest, and called it peace.

This certainly is not the condition that heaven intended for man; and if this be monarchy, well might monarchy be reckoned among the sins of the Jews.
The revolutions which formerly took place in the world had nothing in them that interested the bulk of mankind.

They extended only to a change of persons and measures, but not of principles, and rose or fell among the common transactions of the moment.

What we now behold may not improperly be called a "counter-revolution." Conquest and tyranny, at some earlier period, dispossessed man of his rights, and he is now recovering them.

And as the tide of all human affairs has its ebb and flow in directions contrary to each other, so also is it in this.
Government founded on a moral theory, on a system of universal peace, on the indefeasible hereditary Rights of Man, is now revolving from west to east by a stronger impulse than the government of the sword revolved from east to west.