Thomas Paine: “The time, sir, will come when you, in a melancholy hour, shall reckon up your miseries by your murders in America.”

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

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

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.