Thomas Paine: “To hesitate or to despair are conditions equally unknown in America.”

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.