Thomas Paine: “Will they, who long since threatened to bring us to their feet, bow themselves to ours, and own that without us they are…”

Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.

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.

But in England there are no such occasional bodies; and as to those who are now called Representatives, a great part of them are mere machines of the court, placemen, and dependants.

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.