Thomas Paine: “He who aims at it, leaves a vacancy in his character, which may be filled up with the worst of epithets.”

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

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