Thomas Paine: “The Revolution could derive no benefit from confusion, and its opposers might.”

The poor, in all countries, are naturally both peaceable and grateful in all reforms in which their interest and happiness is included.

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

The oppressed soldier will become a freeman; and the tortured sailor, no longer dragged through the streets like a felon, will pursue his mercantile voyage in safety.

Nations, like individuals, who have long been enemies, without knowing each other, or knowing why, become the better friends when they discover the errors and impositions under which they had acted.