Thomas Paine: “I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all.”

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.

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.

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

It is a great standing which they have now universally obtained; and we may hereafter hope to see revolutions, or changes in governments, produced with the same quiet operation by which any measure, determinable by reason and discussion…