Thomas Paine: “Ah! this government of loaves and fishes has more mischief in it than people have yet reflected on.”

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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