Thomas Paine: “But America need never be ashamed to tell her birth, nor relate the stages by which she rose to empire.”

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.