Thomas Paine: “We are now really another people, and cannot again go back to ignorance and prejudice.”

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

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

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