Thomas Paine: “It is generated in the dust and sweepings of other vices, and is of such a hateful figure that all the rest conspire to…”

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

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.