Thomas Paine: “Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage, than any victory with all its expense.”

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.