Thomas Paine: “The oppressed soldier will become a freeman; and the tortured sailor, no longer dragged through the streets like a…”

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

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