February 23, 2007

Item of the Day: Johnson’s Taxation no Tyranny (1775)

Full Title:
Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolution and Address of the American Congress, [by Samuel Johnson]. Third edition. Printed in London for T. Cadell, 1775.
Excerpt:
In all the parts of human knowledge, whether terminating in science merely speculative, or operating upon life private or civil, are admitted some fundamental principles, or common axioms, which [...]