Thomas Paine: “She sees at once too clearly, that the happiness of mankind has no part in it.”

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.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.