Thomas Paine: “The moving power in this species of Government is, of necessity, Corruption.”

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.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

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