Thomas Paine: “The least apparent mishap on our side, or the least seeming advantage on the part of the enemy, have determined with…”

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.

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.

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

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