Thomas Paine: “But America need never be ashamed to tell her birth, nor relate the stages by which she rose to empire.”

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.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

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.

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