...the so much boasted constitution of England...is imperfect, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems to promise... - Thomas Paine

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...the so much boasted constitution of England...is imperfect, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems to promise...

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Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – 8 June 1809) was a British-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century: Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights.

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

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I prefer peace, but if trouble must come, let it be in my time that my children may know peace.

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