COMMON SENSE; Revisited
COMMON SENSE; REVISITED deserves to be on every American bookshelf and read by parents to their children. It lucidly illuminates the lackings... - more
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Thomas Paine
July 08, 2009 at 04:59 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedThomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) p. 48.Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals. It might be difficult, if not impossible, to form the Continent into one government half a century hence…The more men have to lose the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel.
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