Thomas Paine: “On the contrary, the representative system is always parallel with the order and immutable laws of nature, and meets the…”

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

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

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.

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