Thomas Paine: “It has the singular ability of accommodating itself to all the possible varieties of the human mind.”

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.

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…