Thomas Paine: “The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and…”

Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.

In those which proceed from the former cause, the temper becomes incensed and soured; and the redress, obtained by danger, is too often sullied by revenge.

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

As to what are called national religions, we may, with as much propriety, talk of national Gods.