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    Thomas Paine

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    It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #direction #into #magnitude #taken #which

    There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #act #bolt #called #classes #distinct

    Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #nickname #nicknames #title #titles

    Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #efforts #encourage #endeavor #others #own

    We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #possibilities #reason

    Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #best #even #evil #intolerable #necessary

    Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #awe #deprived #discourage #ensue #horrid

    The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #brethren #country #good #mankind #world

    All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

    The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ↗


    — Thomas Paine

    #conflict #glorious #harder #more #triumph






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    Although Morris did much to restore his reputation in 1780 and 1781 the credit for obtaining these critical loans to "organize" the Bank of North America for approval by Congress in December 1781 should go to Henry or John Laurens and Thomas Paine more than to Robert Morris. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain. Rosenfeld concludes that the phenomenal appeal of his pamphlet resulted from his synthesis of popular and elite elements in the independence movement.

    Consequently the Montagnards especially Robespierre regarded him as an enemy. In December 1793 he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris then released in 1794. His principal contributions were the powerful widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776) the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and The American Crisis (1776–83) a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series.

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