Thomas Paine: “You are fighting for what you can never obtain, and we defending what we never mean to part with.”

The object, in all such preliminary proceedings, is to find out what the general sense of a nation is, and to be governed by it.

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all.

In those which proceed from the former cause, the temper becomes incensed and soured; and the redress, obtained by danger, is too often sullied by revenge.

By the former, freedom has a national champion in the western world; and by the latter, in Europe.