Thomas Paine: “Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America.”

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

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.