Thomas Paine: “From this period we may date the growth of independence.”

When all the governments of Europe shall be established on the representative system, nations will become acquainted, and the animosities and prejudices fomented by the intrigue and artifice of courts, will cease.

Reason and discussion will soon bring things right, however wrong they may begin.

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

But in England there are no such occasional bodies; and as to those who are now called Representatives, a great part of them are mere machines of the court, placemen, and dependants.