On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
If I ask a man in America if he wants a King, he retorts, and asks me if I take him for an idiot?
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “If I ask a man in America if he wants a King, he retorts, and asks me if I take him for an idiot?”
Editor's note · Context
Paine illustrates the widespread American rejection of monarchy through a hypothetical exchange, revealing the common perception of kingship as absurd.
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