Thomas Paine: “It is not now the time for little contrivances, or artful politics.”

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…

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.