Thomas Paine: “Because the impracticability of subjugating this country, being every day more and more manifest, it is their interest…”

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.

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 more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

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