Thomas Paine: “There the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged.”

The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

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