Thomas Paine: “In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity.”

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

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

In those which proceed from the former cause, the temper becomes incensed and soured; and the redress, obtained by danger, is too often sullied by revenge.

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