Thomas Paine: “The French Constitution places the right where the expense must fall, and this union can only be in the nation.”

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

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

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.