TEA LEAVES

"[T]heir prodigality required new plunder, and through the East-India article TEA they hoped to transfer their rapine from that quarter of the world to this.--Every designed quarrel has its pretense ; and the same barbarian avarice accompanied the PLANT to America, which ruined the country that produced it. "That men never turn rogues without turning fools, is a maxim, sooner or later, universally true." P. 129, "The American Crisis III," THOMAS PAINE: WRITINGS (1955)