Thomas Paine: “They have refined upon villany till it wants a name.”

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

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…

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

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.