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Firsts Quotes by Thomas Paine
- This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
- The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult…
- In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government…
- The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient…
- These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time…
- What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
- A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in…
- Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining…
- It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was…
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