"Perhaps before long," remarked Alexander Hamilton, "your tables, chairs, and platters, and dishes, and knives, and forks, and every thing else, would be taxed. Nay, I don't know but they would find means to tax you for every child you got, and for every kiss your daughters, received from their sweethearts; and, God knows, that would soon ruin you."
For [anyone] to contend that they had "a Right to hold the Lands which they have honestly purchased, will be as great a piece of Folly, as it was for the Merchants vainly to pretend that they had a Right to keep their own Money, which they had fairly gained after many a Risque in the Trade." - The Origins of the American Revolution
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American RepublicCustomer Review
It was truly a leap in the dark, and by all reason we should have been up to our necks in quick sand, and yet we overcame and have continued to meet the challenge up through today.
Instead of sipping a Bud at day's end, we would be sipping a cup of intolerable tea. I'm glad they leaped without taking a good look. We owe it all to them!
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