Thomas Paine: “The former supports itself by keeping up a system of war; the latter promotes a system of peace, as the true means of…”

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

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

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.