Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
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Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law.Henry Knox
Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.
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The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
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This dreadful situation, for which our government have made no adequate provision, has alarmed every man of principle and property in New England.
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That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
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Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
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