Thomas Paine: “They confound a military question with a political one, and undertake to supply by a vote what they lost by a battle.”

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

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

The Aristocracy had hitherto opposed the despotism of the Court, and affected the language of patriotism; but it opposed it as its rival (as the English Barons opposed King John) and it now opposed the nation from the same motives.

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