Thomas Paine: “Insolence is sure to provoke hatred, whether in a nation or an individual.”

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

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

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