Thomas Paine: “It is the interest, not of the policy, but of the existence of man, and when it ceases, he must cease to be.”

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

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.