Thomas Paine: “In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity.”

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

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…