Thomas Paine: “They will neither qualify the sentiment, nor add to its defect.”

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

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…

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

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.