Thomas Paine: “It is a triumph without a prize, and wholly unworthy the attention of a people determined to conquer.”

The horrid scene that is now acting by the English government in the East-Indies, is fit only to be told of Goths and Vandals, who, destitute of principle, robbed and tortured the world they were incapable of enjoying.

In those which proceed from the former cause, the temper becomes incensed and soured; and the redress, obtained by danger, is too often sullied by revenge.

It serves to keep up deceitful expectations which prevent people from looking into the defects and abuses of government.

The insulted German and the enslaved Spaniard, the Russ and the Pole, are beginning to think.