Thomas Paine: “If taxes are necessary, they are of course advantageous; but if they require an apology, the apology itself implies an…”

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.

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

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

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