Thomas Paine: “Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.