Thomas Paine: “May, then, the example of all France contribute to regenerate the freedom which a province of it destroyed!”

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

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.