Thomas Paine: “The nation is the paymaster of everything, and everything must conform to its general will.”

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

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…

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.