Thomas Paine: “Never did a nation invite destruction upon itself with the eagerness and the ignorance with which Britain has done.”

There ought, therefore, to be in every nation a method of occasionally ascertaining the state of public opinion with respect to government.

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.

I have no idea, considering the reforms which are now passing and spreading throughout Europe, that England will permit herself to be the last; and where the occasion and the opportunity quietly offer, it is better than to wait for a…

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