Welcome friends and followers! Today will be the first of several quotes from Common Sense, the 47-page pamphlet by Thomas Paine, so influential in the shaping of the “American” state of mind in 1776. That his thoughts of freedom and democracy are more and more relevant even today is an understatement.
1. Born To Reign, Or Obey?
“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.” - Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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