Quote#Truth
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to…
Quote byThomas Paine · 1737–1809
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: First Principles of Government (1795).
English (original)
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once.
— Thomas Paine
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