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Few Quotes by Thomas Paine
- I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay…
- I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair…
- As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
- There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are…
- In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never…
- 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…
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