Thomas Paine: “Titles are like circles drawn by the magician's wand, to contract the sphere of man's felicity.”

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.