Thomas Paine: “It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights.”

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

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.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.