Thomas Paine: “It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished.”

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.

I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

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