Thomas Paine: “It is not every country (perhaps there is not another in the world) that can boast so fair an origin.”

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

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

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…

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.