Thomas Paine: “Laws difficult to be executed cannot be generally good.”

But as religion is very improperly made a political machine, and the reality of it is thereby destroyed, I will conclude this work with stating in what light religion appears to me.

Nations, like individuals, who have long been enemies, without knowing each other, or knowing why, become the better friends when they discover the errors and impositions under which they had acted.

The poor, in all countries, are naturally both peaceable and grateful in all reforms in which their interest and happiness is included.

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