Thomas Paine: “Were every minister in England a Chatham, it would now weigh little or nothing in the scale of American politics.”

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

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?