Thomas Paine: “Can any thing be a greater inducement to a miserly man, than the hope of making his Mammon safe?”

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.