Thomas Paine: “If any thing can be a lesson to presumption, surely the circumstances of this war will have their effect.”

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

There is, therefore, no power but the voluntary will of the people that has a right to act in any matter respecting a general reform; and by the same right that two persons can confer on such a subject, a thousand may.

When all the governments of Europe shall be established on the representative system, nations will become acquainted, and the animosities and prejudices fomented by the intrigue and artifice of courts, will cease.

It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.