Thomas Paine: “Unnecessary offices and places in governments and courts are created at the expense of the public to maintain them.”

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

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.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.