Thomas Paine: “It serves to keep up deceitful expectations which prevent people from looking into the defects and abuses of government.”

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

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…

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.