Jan 1, 1791
In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) framed the Patriot argument for independence from Great Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. Paine advanced Enlightenment-era arguments for human rights that shaped revolutionary discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Jan 1, 1791
The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.
Jan 1, 1791
Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?
Jan 1, 1791
I know the value of moral instruction, and I have seen the danger of the contrary.
Jan 1, 1791
The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.
Jan 1, 1791
The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.
Jan 1, 1791
When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
Jan 1, 1791
It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.