Thomas Paine: “Never did so great an opportunity offer itself to England, and to all Europe, as is produced by the two Revolutions of…”

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

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.

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.