Thomas Paine: “England would appear a wretch indeed, at this time of day, to ask or owe any thing to the bounty of America.”

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.