Thomas Paine: “Our citizenship in the United States is our national character.”

It would be better that nations should wi continue the pay of their soldiers during their lives, and give them their discharge and restore them to freedom and their friends, and cease recruiting, than retain such multitudes at the same…

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

Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.

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