Thomas Paine: “Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.”

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.