Thomas Paine: “The prosecution of the war by the former ministry was savage and horrid; since which it has been mean, trickish, and…”

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

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

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.