"Common Sense" Quotes
"Common Sense" presents persuasive arguments for American independence from British rule.
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Quotes
A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT.
The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
These are the times that try men's souls.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
