Thomas Paine: “His natural rights are the foundation of all his civil rights.”

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

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