Thomas Paine: “It lost ground from contempt more than from hatred; and was rather jeered at as an ass, than dreaded as a lion.”

When men unite in agreeing that a thing is good, could it be obtained, such for instance as relief from a burden of taxes and the extinction of corruption, the object is more than half accomplished.

Reason and discussion, persuasion and conviction, become the weapons in the contest, and it is only when those are attempted to be suppressed that recourse is had to violence.

It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.

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