Thomas Paine: “A nation can have no interest in being wrong.”

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

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

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

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.