Thomas Paine: “If the grievances justified the taking up arms, they justified our separation; if they did not justify our separation…”

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

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

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

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.