Thomas Paine: “It is a case that applies itself to every man's sense of justice, and is one among many that calls aloud for a…”

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.

With how much more glory, and advantage to itself, does a nation act, when it exerts its powers to rescue the world from bondage, and to create itself friends, than when it employs those powers to increase ruin, desolation, and misery.

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

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