Thomas Paine: “You have often stopped, as if you intended to think, but your thoughts have ever been too early or too late.”

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

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

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.