Thomas Paine: “We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and…”

As soldiers have hitherto been treated in most countries, they might be said to be without a friend.

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.

But in England there are no such occasional bodies; and as to those who are now called Representatives, a great part of them are mere machines of the court, placemen, and dependants.

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