Thomas Paine: “Examples are not wanting to show how dreadfully vindictive and cruel are all old governments, when they are successful…”

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

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

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.