Thomas Paine: “Those of trade and commerce, whether with respect to the intercourse of individuals or of nations, are laws of mutual…”

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.

It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.

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