Thomas Paine: “The tax on houses and windows is one of those direct taxes, which, like the poor-rates, is not confounded with trade…”

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.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.