Thomas Paine: “But when she sees, as she now sees, that a navy is the first engine of power, she can easily accomplish it.”

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

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

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

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