Thomas Paine: “A nation under a well-regulated government should permit none to remain uninstructed.”

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

When another nation shall join France, despotism and bad government will scarcely dare to appear.

I have carefully avoided to enlarge upon the subject, because I am inclined to believe that what is called the present ministry, wish to see contentions about religion kept up, to prevent the nation turning its attention to subjects of…

Long experience however has shown, that reforms of this kind are not those which old governments wish to promote, and therefore it is to nations, and not to such governments, that these matters present themselves.