Thomas Paine: “Hereditaryship is, in this sense, as much an attaint upon principle, as an outrage upon society.”

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

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 man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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