Speech · Political speechA monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.Fisher Ames1795★ 5.1
Pamphlet · Political literatureNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.James Madison1795★ 3.8
Political literatureHe that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.Thomas Paine1795★ 3.6
Pamphlet · Religious literature · Philosophical literatureThe sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again.Thomas PaineThe Age of Reason · 1795★ 2.0
The debility to which Nature condemned woman incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.Marquis de SadePhilosophy in the Bedroom · 1795★ 1.9