Thomas Paine: “Never, in the course of my observation, was delusion more successfully acted, nor a nation more completely deceived.”

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

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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