Thomas Paine: “A narrow system of politics, like a narrow system of religion, is calculated only to sour the temper, and be at variance…”

There ought, therefore, to be in every nation a method of occasionally ascertaining the state of public opinion with respect to government.

Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.

The horrid scene that is now acting by the English government in the East-Indies, is fit only to be told of Goths and Vandals, who, destitute of principle, robbed and tortured the world they were incapable of enjoying.

When another nation shall join France, despotism and bad government will scarcely dare to appear.