Quakers put forth a testimony, dated the 20th of December, signed “John Pemberton,” declaring their attachment to the British government....

“There are men too, who have not virtue enough to be angry...He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine:...

“Cato seems to be possessed of that Jesuitical cunning, which always endeavours to disgrace what it cannot disprove…” Cato was a fake...

“…the honesty of the press is as great an object to society as the freedom of it.” Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. Eric...

Paine quotes from a political statement of the Quakers: “It hath ever been our judgment and principle, since we were called to profess...

Paine confronts the Quakers who were loyalists: The quotation which ye have made from Proverbs, in the third page of your testimony,...

Debts we have none; and whatever we may contract on this account will serve as a glorious memento of our virtue. Can we but leave...

Paine commenting on the motivations of Americans who did not support the Revolution: Though I would carefully avoid giving unnecessary...

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in...

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our...

Among the pupils at the Pritanee’ there was a son of General Miackzinski, who died fighting under the banners of the Republic. Young...

The morning after that ardently wished-for day on which we took possession of the Palace of the Kings of France I observed to Bonaparte...

But Bonaparte held the liberty of the press in the greatest horror; and so violent was his passion when anything was urged in its favour...

The police as a political engine is a dangerous thing. It foments and encourages more false conspiracies than it discovers or defeats...

Bonaparte did not feel much concerned at the death of Washington, that noble founder of rational freedom in the new world; but it...

I recollect that one fine night, when he was on deck with some persons who were arguing in favour of materialism, Bonaparte raised his...

Bonaparte had confided the secret of his plans to very few persons – to those only whose assistance he wanted. The rest mechanically...

On arriving before Jaffa, where there were already some troops, the first person I met was Adjutant-General Gresieux, with whom I was...

Bonaparte’s principle was, as he himself has often told me, to look upon religions as the work of men, but to respect them everywhere as...

…the incense prodigally offered up to him, did not however seduce him from his retired habits. Lately the conqueror and ruler of Italy,...

Who does not remember Oxenstiern’s remark to his son, who trembled at going so young to the congress of Munster: “Go, my son. You will...

Samuel Shaw to the Rev. Eliot I cannot dismiss this subject without observing, that it is happy for America that she has a patriot army,...

George Washington: Circular to the State Governments "America has been almost amused out of her liberties. We have frequently heard the...

Stephen De Lancey to Cornelia Barclay De Lancey The Negro’s and Negro Women are inhumanly treated, are two-thirds naked, and are very...