Thomas Paine: “I dwell not upon the vapors of imagination; I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as A, B, C, hold up…”

Never did so great an opportunity offer itself to England, and to all Europe, as is produced by the two Revolutions of America and France.

Long experience however has shown, that reforms of this kind are not those which old governments wish to promote, and therefore it is to nations, and not to such governments, that these matters present themselves.

The insulted German and the enslaved Spaniard, the Russ and the Pole, are beginning to think.

The horrid scene that is now acting by the English government in the East-Indies, is fit only to be told of Goths and Vandals, who, destitute of principle, robbed and tortured the world they were incapable of enjoying.