Thomas Paine: “The case was not, which they liked best, but which they hated most; and the least hated passed for love.”

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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…

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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