Thomas Paine: “Natural philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, carry the mind from the country to the creation, and give it a fitness…”

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

The horrid scene that is now acting by the English government in the East-Indies, is fit only to be told of Goths and Vandals, who, destitute of principle, robbed and tortured the world they were incapable of enjoying.

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.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage, than any victory with all its expense.