Thomas Paine: “But when she sees, as she now sees, that a navy is the first engine of power, she can easily accomplish it.”

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.

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…

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.