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Common Sense Quotes
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining our vices. Society encourages intercourse. Government creates distinctions.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and Englandhath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare intime an asylum for mankind.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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