Thomas Paine: “But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks,--and all it wants,--is the liberty of appearing.”

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

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

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.