THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
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“Maybe all along the only reason Great Britain cared for us was for HER benefit!”
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“Don’t call Great Britain our caretaker-they’ve been abusive to us!”
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“How can a tiny country like Great Britain be expected to care for such a large nation like America. It just doesn’t make sense. It should be the other way around.”
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“There is nothing positive that will come from staying connected to Great Britain.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Our favorites: “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Detailed explanation-2: -I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had anything to do with her. The commerce by which she hath enriched herself are necessities and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Common Sense” is credited as playing a crucial role in convincing colonists to take up arms against England. In it, Paine argues that representational government is superior to a monarchy or other forms of government based on aristocracy and heredity.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” “Give me liberty, or give me death.”