Thomas Paine: “It is common opinion only that makes them anything, or nothing, or worse than nothing.”

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.

The insulted German and the enslaved Spaniard, the Russ and the Pole, are beginning to think.

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.