Thomas Paine: “Even Lucifer would scorn to reign in heaven by permission, and yet an Englishman can creep for only an entrance into…”

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.

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 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.

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