Thomas Paine: “It stares corruption in the face, and the venal tribe are all alarmed.”

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

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.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.