Thomas Paine: “Fortified with that proud integrity, that disdains to triumph or to yield, I will advocate the Rights of Man.”

But as religion is very improperly made a political machine, and the reality of it is thereby destroyed, I will conclude this work with stating in what light religion appears to me.

But where genuine principles of liberty pervade a people, every thing is restored to order; and the soldier civilly treated, returns the civility.

Reason and discussion, persuasion and conviction, become the weapons in the contest, and it is only when those are attempted to be suppressed that recourse is had to violence.

As soldiers have hitherto been treated in most countries, they might be said to be without a friend.