"Continental plan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... independence been a settled system with America, (as Britain has advanced,) she ought to have doubled her importation, and prohibited in some degree her exportation. And this single circumstance is sufficient to acquit America before any jury of nations, of having a continental plan of independence in view; a charge which, had it been true, would have been honorable, but is so grossly false, that either the amazing ignorance or the wilful dishonesty of the British court is ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine |
