Thomas Paine: “Could it pretend that it did not punish a want of confidence with the pains which would have been scarcely merited by…”

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

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.

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…