PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; 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 defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason...
The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested.
-published anonymously by Thomas Paine in 1776.
As evidence of the power of words and the ideas contained therein, Thomas Paine published and distributed Common Sense in 1776 and helped fuel a revolution.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
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