Thomas Paine: “The greatest condemnation that could be passed upon it would be a refutation.”

The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

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.