Thomas Paine: “Another reason is that navies add nothing to the manners or morals of a people.”

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

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…

The argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.