Thomas Paine: “I am not one of those who wish to see Europe in a flame, because I am persuaded that such an event will not shorten the…”

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

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.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

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