Thomas Paine: “In short, there is no old ground we can fail upon, but some new foundation rises again to support us.”

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

I have no idea, considering the reforms which are now passing and spreading throughout Europe, that England will permit herself to be the last; and where the occasion and the opportunity quietly offer, it is better than to wait for a…

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

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