Thomas Paine: “To doubt now would be a species of infidelity, and to forget the instruments which saved us then would be ingratitude.”

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

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

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

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…