Thomas Paine: “When taxes are proposed, the country is amused by the plausible language of taxing luxuries.”

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

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.

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.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.