Thomas Paine: “Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.”

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

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.