Jan 1, 1791
They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.
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
Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.
Jan 1, 1791
They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.
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.
Jan 1, 1791
The argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?
Jan 1, 1791
He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.
Jan 1, 1791
The enormous expense of governments has provoked people to think, by making them feel; and when once the veil begins to rend, it admits not of repair.
Jan 1, 1791
It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
Jan 1, 1791
The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.
Jan 1, 1791
To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.
Jan 1, 1791
Never, in the course of my observation, was delusion more successfully acted, nor a nation more completely deceived.