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Thomas Paine

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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.


— Thomas Paine


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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.


— Thomas Paine


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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.


— Thomas Paine


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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.


— Thomas Paine


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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.


— Thomas Paine


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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.


— Thomas Paine


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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.


— Thomas Paine


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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.


— Thomas Paine


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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.


— Thomas Paine


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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.


— Thomas Paine


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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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