Thomas Paine: “Let England mind her own business and we will mind ours.”

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

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.

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

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…