Thomas Paine: “Man worships not himself, but his Maker; and the liberty of conscience which he claims is not for the service of…”

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.

Why may we not suppose, that the great Father of all is pleased with variety of devotion; and that the greatest offence we can act, is that by which we seek to torment and render each other miserable?

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage, than any victory with all its expense.

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