Thomas Paine – The First American Blogger
His Words in Today's Context
“As this is in the order of nature, the order of Government must necessarily follow it, or Government will, as we see it does, degenerate into ignorance”-Thomas Paine, Rights of Man Isolation, an unwillingness to allow dissent, and a refusal to acknowledge realities that don’t line up with ideologies makes for ignorant governance. Tags: thomas+paine, thomas+paine+quotes, …
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“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime”-Thomas Paine One crucial component of maintaining a free society and Democratic Republic is the sense of responsibility of the people to maintain their own civil freedom and that of the society at large. The responsibility to participate at some level and remain aware of what their government …
“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”-Thomas Paine, Common Sense History is replete with immediacies that made oppression of human rights and dignity convenient. There is little in the best of American history that lends itself much to convenience, but instead from the determined striving of the human …
“Among ridiculous things nothing is more ridiculous than ridiculous rage”– Thomas Paine Life is hard enough. In living from one day to the next, much of what comprises our outlook and general mood is entirely up to each one of us. Every life is filled with, at a minimum, mild irritants, inconveniences, and disappointments. How we …
“There is a general and striking difference between the genuine effects of truth itself, and the effects of falsehood believed to be truth. Truth is naturally benign; but false-hood believed to be truth is always furious. The former delights in serenity, is mild and persuasive, and seeks not the auxiliary aid of invention. The latter …