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Thomas Paine

Read through the most famous quotes from Thomas Paine




قهر الإستبداد ليس بالأمر السهل , ولكن ما يعَزينا أنه كلما اشتد الصراع قسوة ...كلما ازداد النصر مجدًا


— Thomas Paine


#common-sense

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying


— Thomas Paine


#death #dying #uncertain #death

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


— Thomas Paine


#inspirational

I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.


— Thomas Paine


#love

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.


— Thomas Paine


#expect #fatigue #freedom #like #men

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


#men

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.


— Thomas Paine


#better #defence #defender #faith #george

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.


— Thomas Paine


#life

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead; it is the living only that has any right in it.


— Thomas Paine


#change

Wer seine eigene Freiheit sichern will, muss selbst seinen Feind vor Unterdrückung schützen.


— Thomas Paine


#freedom






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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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