Thomas Paine: “A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.”

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

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.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.