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Thomas Paine

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Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.


— Thomas Paine


#politics #inspirational

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.


— Thomas Paine


#begin #our #over #power #world

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.


— Thomas Paine


#faith

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.


— Thomas Paine


#any #established #feature #law #marked

These are the times that try men's souls.


— Thomas Paine


#souls #these #times #try

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...


— Thomas Paine


#men

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.


— Thomas Paine


#tolerance #tolerance

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.


— Thomas Paine


#religion #science #skepticism #the-bible #age

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.


— Thomas Paine


#christian-religion #falsified #sun #worship #religion

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.


— Thomas Paine


#good #religion #world






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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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