Thomas Paine: “In such cases, who is to decide, the living or the dead?”

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

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.