Thomas Paine: “But the question with her ought to be, Whether it is worth her while to hold them, and what will be the consequence?”

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

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.