Thomas Paine: “There is no place for mystery; nowhere for it to begin.”

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

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

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.

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