Thomas Paine: “I have no notion of yielding the palm of the United States to any Grecians or Romans that were ever born.”

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.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

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