Thomas Paine: “That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another.”

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?

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

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