Thomas Paine: “The independence of America is at this moment as firmly established as that of any other country in a state of war.”

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…

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

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

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