Thomas Paine: “Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.”

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.