Thomas Paine: “We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”

It serves to keep up deceitful expectations which prevent people from looking into the defects and abuses of government.

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

There is, therefore, no power but the voluntary will of the people that has a right to act in any matter respecting a general reform; and by the same right that two persons can confer on such a subject, a thousand may.

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.