Thomas Paine: “In short, man is so naturally a creature of society that it is almost impossible to put him out of it.”

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.

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

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

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.