Jan 1, 1791
It concentrates the knowledge necessary to the interest of the parts, and of the whole.
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
A nation is not a body, the figure of which is to be represented by the human body; but is like a body contained within a circle, having a common center, in which every radius meets; and that center is formed by representation.
Jan 1, 1791
Nature is orderly in all her works; but this is a mode of government that counteracts nature.
Jan 1, 1791
On the contrary, the representative system is always parallel with the order and immutable laws of nature, and meets the reason of man in every part.
Jan 1, 1791
Where is the propriety of calling such a lad the father of the people?--In all other cases, a person is a minor until the age of twenty-one years.
Jan 1, 1791
In the representative system, the reason for everything must publicly appear.
Jan 1, 1791
Every man is a proprietor in government, and considers it a necessary part of his business to understand.
Jan 1, 1791
It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.
Jan 1, 1791
The Monarch and the Monarchy were distinct and separate things; and it was against the established despotism of the latter, and not against the person or principles of the former, that the revolt commenced, and the Revolution has been…