Thomas Paine: “It is by distortedly exalting some men, that others are distortedly debased, till the whole is out of nature.”

But as religion is very improperly made a political machine, and the reality of it is thereby destroyed, I will conclude this work with stating in what light religion appears to me.

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…

Never did so great an opportunity offer itself to England, and to all Europe, as is produced by the two Revolutions of America and France.

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.