Thomas Paine: “Every succession is a revolution, and every regency a counter-revolution.”

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

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

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