Thomas Paine: “It must show man the proper character of man; and the nearer it can bring him to that standard, the stronger the…”

Long experience however has shown, that reforms of this kind are not those which old governments wish to promote, and therefore it is to nations, and not to such governments, that these matters present themselves.

But where genuine principles of liberty pervade a people, every thing is restored to order; and the soldier civilly treated, returns the civility.

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…

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