Thomas Paine: “On all such subjects men have but to think, and they will neither act wrong nor be misled.”

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…

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

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

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…