Thomas Paine: “Say not when mischief is done, that you had not warning, and remember that we do not begin it, but mean to repay it.”

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

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

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.

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