Thomas Paine: “For everything which has been predicted has happened, and all that was promised has failed.”

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…

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.