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by: Thomas Paine
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780977798209
ISBN: 0977798208
Label: Big Fish Publishing Inc
Manufacturer: Big Fish Publishing Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 92
Publication Date: January 27, 2006
Publisher: Big Fish Publishing Inc
Sales Rank: 87894
Studio: Big Fish Publishing Inc
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In its time over 600,000 copies of Common Sense were circulated through the Colonies. Not one to be 'politically correct' Thomas Paine's little book was key to starting a revolution we know today as the United States of America. Quotes from within these pages: 'A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT' 'The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.' 'A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.' 'The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed, but if lost or neglected, the whole continent will partake of the misfortune.' 'The present time, likewise, is that peculiar time, which never happens to a nation but once . . . the time of forming itself into a government. Most nations have let slip the opportunity, and by that means have been compelled to receive laws from their conquerors.'
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Rating: - Five stars should be default! Required reading for a true Patriot!
It is quite unfortunate that the maladroit public school system has failed to have this as a required reading. Thomas Paine has obtained immortality with these words in the minds of true conservative Constitutionalists-that of which has been obscured by both the Republicrats and Demopulicans. Having not read this in high school, I am glad I did. In a time when America is in an aberration from her fundamental principles I find myself genuflecting to her Constitution for insight-for that I am ridiculed, ... Read More
Rating: - A Book That Changed the World!
Common sense was at the right place at the right time, written by the right person. It created an inflection point that changed the world!
Most major changes in life are cause by events called inflection points. An inflection point is an event that changes how you view the world, who you are, or your life in general.
Think 9-11. People in the United States felt safer before that day. After 9-11 we realized our vulnerability to terrorists. There are many inflection points in ... Read More
Rating: - American Prophecy
This book was originally written as a pamphlet in 1776. It was crucial in advancing the thought and spirit of the American Revolution to the masses. I found this book to be amazing in how forward thinking the author was. Declaring "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind". He spends the first part of the book logically explaining that Monarchy is wrong and having heirs to a throne is ridiculous. He uses the bible as part of his argument that kings and kingdoms are man made and ... Read More
Rating: - The most important book in America's history
"Men read by way of revenge."
A forerunner of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Common Sense should properly be regarded (at least in a historical, though not a legal, sense) as one of the founding documents of this nation.
Paine makes the case for independence in strong moral terms, clearly based on the Enlightenment political theories of John Locke. The list he gives of the Crown's abuses should already be familiar to the reader from the Declaration (Jefferson ... Read More
Rating: - We have it in our power to begin the world over again
This was a required reading for a graduate humanities class. John Keane's biography succinctly showed that Tom Paine (1737-1809) was the consummate revolutionary and a daring adventurer. Not only was he an important figure in the American Revolution, but he also traveled to France in 1791 to give that revolution a push. Paine traveled from England, just in time to stoke the flames of the revolution with his pamphlet Common Sense, in January 1776. To call Common Sense a sensation in the colonies is actually a bit ... Read More
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