Thomas Paine: “Because they suppose that the fallacious idea of a cessation of hostilities will render these States remiss in their…”

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

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…

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.