Thomas Paine – The First American Blogger
His Words in Today's Context
“Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.” As Thomas Paine says, a title is but a nickname and a nickname a title. We remember James Brown and Gerald Ford today. At first glance they seem at opposite ends of the pole – one a President of the United States and the other …
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“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
-Thomas Paine
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” While sitting down to write this post in the office of my San Francisco home, a slight tremor shook the building. Nothing much, just enough for the beams of this wooden structure to creak and my chair …
Enjoy, sir, your insensibility of feeling and reflecting. It is the prerogative of animals. And no man will envy you those honors, in which a savage can only be your rival and a bear your master.
-Thomas Paine, The Crisis
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech and practically construct them into syntax.
-Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred…
-Thomas Paine, The Crisis
If there is a sin superior to every other it is that of willful and offensive war
-Thomas Paine, The Crisis
It is an age of Revolutions, in which everything may be looked for
-Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
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It is the nature and intention of a constitution to prevent governing by party, by establishing a common principle that shall limit and control the power and impulse of party, and that says to all parties, thus far shalt thou go and no further. But in the absence of a constitution, men look entirely to …
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