Thomas Paine: “On the other hand, the Nation disowned knowing anything of them but as citizens, and was determined to shut out all such…”

If, therefore, the good to be obtained be worthy of a passive, rational, and costless revolution, it would be bad policy to prefer waiting for a calamity that should force a violent one.

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…

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

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