Thomas Paine: “But to make war with those who trade with us, is like setting a bull-dog upon a customer at the shop-door.”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

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