Thomas Paine: “By engendering the church with the state, a sort of mule-animal, capable only of destroying, and not of breeding up, is…”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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

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.

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…