Thomas Paine: “If you have no regard to us, at least spare the blood which it is your duty to save.”

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.