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- “Common sense, as well as common values all, lead us. Our future depends upon it, and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.”
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine: Key Quotes Explained. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense may be, after The Communist Manifesto, the most influential political tract ever written.
- “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 defense of custom.
- “Time makes more converts than reason.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense.
- “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 our vices.
- “From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom,” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense.
Explanation of the famous quotes in Common Sense, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
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Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell.
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end.It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the...
Best Common Sense Quotes. 1. “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 2. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” – Gertrude Stein. 3. “Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.” – George Bernard Shaw. 4.
Common Sense Quotes. 20 of the best book quotes from Common Sense. 01. “Until an independence is declared the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.”
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us. Conquest may be effected under the pretence of friendship; and ourselves, after a long and brave resistance, be at last cheated into slavery.
