Thomas Paine: “Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it.”

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

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.