Thomas Paine: “That men never turn rogues without turning fools is a maxim, sooner or later, universally true.”

As to what are called national religions, we may, with as much propriety, talk of national Gods.

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

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.

If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expense of building navies, filling them with men, and then…