Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

The moral and political obligation of Contracts; has, indeed, furnilhed a theme for the Philofophers Who have infirufted, and a rule for the Statesmen Who have governed mankind, in every age, and in every country. The'faith of nations, like the cre dit of individuals, has not only been deemed the criterion of their virtue, but the inl'trument of their opulence and their power: And fo fixed and facred a character is given to this palladium of political pro fperity, that every arbitrary attempt, in any deg ree, to change the afpeét, or to divert the operation of.

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