We, curiously, read wondrously little from or about "Founding Father," Thomas Paine. As I read his COLLECTED WORKS (1955) I now understand why. This non-slaveholder rhetorician was our most brilliant philosopher and revolutionary, whom it is now more convenient not to read, nor teach, nor commemorate as others!http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/thomas-paine/
1778 QUOTE FROM FOUNDING FATHER THOMAS PAINE @ president DONALD TRUMP 2017:
"Were government a mere manufacture or article of commerce immaterial by whom it should be made or sold, we might as well employ her [Great Britain] as another, but when we consider it is as the fountain from whence the general manners and morality of a country take their rise, that the persons entrusted with the execution thereof are by their serious example an authority to support these principles, how abominably absurd is the idea of being hereafter governed by a set of men who have been guilty of forgery, perjury, theft, and every species of villainy which the lowest wretches on earth could practice or invent. What greater public curse can befall any country than to be under such authority, and what greater blessing than to be delivered therefrom. The soul of any man of sentiment would rise in brave rebellion against them and spurn them from the earth."
P.163, "The American Crisis, Number V, March 21, 1778," THOMAS PAINE: COLLECTED WRITINGS (1955)
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
FEARED "FOUNDING FATHER": THOMAS PAINE
We, curiously, read wondrously little from or about "Founding Father," Thomas Paine. As I read his COLLECTED WORKS (1955) I now understand why. This non-slaveholder rhetorician was our most brilliant philosopher and revolutionary, whom it is now more convenient not to read, nor teach, nor commemorate as others!http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/thomas-paine/
1778 QUOTE FROM FOUNDING FATHER THOMAS PAINE @ president DONALD TRUMP 2017:
"Were government a mere manufacture or article of commerce immaterial by whom it should be made or sold, we might as well employ her [Great Britain] as another, but when we consider it is as the fountain from whence the general manners and morality of a country take their rise, that the persons entrusted with the execution thereof are by their serious example an authority to support these principles, how abominably absurd is the idea of being hereafter governed by a set of men who have been guilty of forgery, perjury, theft, and every species of villainy which the lowest wretches on earth could practice or invent. What greater public curse can befall any country than to be under such authority, and what greater blessing than to be delivered therefrom. The soul of any man of sentiment would rise in brave rebellion against them and spurn them from the earth."
P.163, "The American Crisis, Number V, March 21, 1778," THOMAS PAINE: COLLECTED WRITINGS (1955)