Thomas Paine: “There is not in the compass of language a sufficiency of words to express the baseness of your king, his ministry and…”

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

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…

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

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.