Thomas Paine: “Yet we have seen the accomplishment of the one, why then should we doubt that of the other?”

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

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.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.