Thomas Paine: “I know that the annals of the world hold out to us but rarely the august and majestic spectacle of a nation, which…”

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

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