Thomas Paine: “By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world.”

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…

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

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.