Thomas Paine: “It has the singular ability of accommodating itself to all the possible varieties of the human mind.”

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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