Thomas Paine: “We are a people, who, in our situation, differ from all the world.”

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.

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

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

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.