Thomas Paine: “And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.”

The present age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason, and the present generation will appear to the future as the Adam of a new world.

With how much more glory, and advantage to itself, does a nation act, when it exerts its powers to rescue the world from bondage, and to create itself friends, than when it employs those powers to increase ruin, desolation, and misery.

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

When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed as before; but it would not only be wrong, but bad policy, to attempt by force what ought to be accomplished by reason.