Thomas Paine: “But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir.”

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.