Thomas Paine: “I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.”

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

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.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?