Thomas Paine: “As soldiers have hitherto been treated in most countries, they might be said to be without a friend.”

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

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

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

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…