Thomas Paine: “It is a pacific system, operating to cordialise mankind, by rendering nations, as well as individuals, useful to each…”

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

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.

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

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.