Thomas Paine: “Nothing could be a more critical situation than this, and if ever the fate of America depended upon the event of a day…”

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.

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

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.