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Thomas Paine: A nation can have no interest in being wrong.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
A nation can have no interest in being wrong.
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Thomas Paine

Editor's note · Context

In "Rights of Man," this asserts the fundamental belief that a nation's true interest lies in correctness, not error.

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