Thomas Paine: “The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go…”

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…

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

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.