Thomas Paine: “If monarchy is a useless thing, why is it kept up anywhere? and if a necessary thing, how can it be dispensed with?”

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

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

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.