Thomas Paine: “It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.”

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…

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.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.