Other related topics at: Authority/Government/State 423. America/Americans; Choice; Representation "As man can be in but one place, at once, he cannot have the advantages of multiplied residence. He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. He who goes voluntarily to America, cannot complain of losing what he leaves in Europe. He, perhaps, had a right to vote for a knight or burgess; by crossing the Atlantick, he has not nullified his right; but he has made its exertion no longer possible. By his own choice he has left a country, where he had a vote and little property, for another, where he has great property, but no vote." Johnson: Taxation No Tyranny Link 424. Representation; Taxation "The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning." Johnson: Taxation No Tyranny Link