Common Sense Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, could not have come at a better time. ... One opinion of the publication is "Paine's Common Sense was unremittingly secular in tone, making its points through a primer on eighteenth-century republican thought, using Biblical quotes merely as window-dressing. ... Paine's views expressed in Common Sense were not secular in tone. ... Paine used Biblical quotes effectively in this pamphlet, not as "window dressing". ... Common Sense. ...

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Common Sense Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was one of the most influential political pamphlets during the American Revolution. ... Another evil of the monarchy Paine says is its hereditary nature of succession. ... Paine states that it is the pride of a king which brings about war. ... Paine feels that the establishment of the monarchy within the Jewish society is well worth the time to look at. He examines and quotes from the Old Testament several times focusing on mainly on the Israelites requesting to be rules by a king and the prophet Samuel discouraging it saying that the only ...

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In "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" Thomas Paine expresses his idea about individual rights, the idea of revolution and what it means to be an American. ... Here are some statements that show shared feelings by Locke and Paine. ... (Page 698, Text) These quotes show that Thomas Paine feels that the Americans are not being treated fairly, shows that the connections between Great Britain and America can cause danger for the Americans by being pulled into war unnecessarily. ... Paine also states. ... (Page 696, Text) Here Thomas Paine shows his feelings of the Revolution. ...

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Thomas Paine's views can be described as ones of independence and freedom, when an American thinks about the transformation our country made to an independent nation they will look to thank the pamphlet, Common Sense. Society gives people a sense of reality. ... Paine talks about his concern with human trust in Common Sense; he questions how man can't seem to trust yet there is the power of the king over all the people. ... This quote shows the disagreement Paine has with human nature although he says in an earlier sentence that without kings there would be no war. ... He influenced ...

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The passing of Paine's version ofCommon Sense? ... An example of this is in the quote,Join the $100 Revolution. ... A prime example of political mud slinging is this quote,The takeover of our politics by what Truman called thespecial privilege boys? ... Any educated person can easily see these motives, once having read the true "Common Sense" version. ... from Paine's version of Common Sense?...

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Thomas Paine was an American and English political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. He is most for famous for Common Sense. ... " In this quote he argues that the natural state of man is war. ... He had helped the Americans in their conflict against Britain with his pamphlet Common Sense and possibly had also had a hand in writing the Declaration of Independence. ... Thomas Paine wants a government that can enjoy their freedom. ...

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(Middlekauff) "Common Sense" written by Thomas Paine was one of the most famous revolutionary pamphlets. ... As more and more colonist begin to read Common Sense the more and more the ideas began to spread. "Common Sense" quickly became the inspiration behind the revolution, and some even say it was a precursor to the declaration. ... (Paine) This quotation from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense was the conclusion to his book. ... He uses this quote to help push his fellow Americans to rise to action. ...

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Aboard the Arbella, en route to the New World, John Winthropp described the inequality of wealth and social/political status (into which people were born at the time) as "for the glory of (the individual's) Creator and the common good of the creature, man."" ... Franklin was a primary instigator in this ethos shown in various writings, which became widely quoted by other such motivational writers. ... At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. ... But d...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

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The Common Sense written by Thomas Paine , who influenced by the enlightenment, he told the America people should against the control of British and separate from the British regime. ... The ideal of declaration directly quoted from the British philosopher John Locke's writings. ...

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This very literally explained in a quote from Thomas Paine; "The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned, while the neglect the means of self defense . ... I would like to see this type of common sense attitude of holding and individual responsible for their own actions applied to the issues of guns. ... Of all the confident issues in our society today, I see gun control as the most volatile on that common sense will preva...

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This is very literally explained in a quote from Thomas Paine: "The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned, while they neglect the means of self defense. ... What Thomas Paine is saying here is that the only things that a criminal has to fear are the consequences of violating the law and the ability of a potential victim to defend himself. ... (Paine 56) The pro-gun lobby would take all this to mean that there should be no restrictions at all on gun ownership. ...

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Margaret Fuller was quoted as saying that,It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature?... Even when his writing style came up wanting, Fennimore's vision never wavered,The literature of the United States is a subject of the highest interest to the civilized world, for when it does begin to be felt, it will be felt with a force, a directness, and a common sense in its application, that has never yet been known (462).? ... Paine's Rights of Man,?...

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It often strikes me how much education and democracy have in common: both, theories of education as well as theories of democracy, presume the autonomous individual from the very beginning, capable to question any authority and any wisdom by itself. ... Cross-national opinion polls prove that at this moment in time there is no collective European identity - at least when you ask the population itself instead of politicians on such a mysterious thing (a myth as many authors assume) as a common cultural heritage. ... And has Gustav Stresemann s vision in the 1920ies of a Europãisch...

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