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Thomas Paine

Tuesday 3rd of March 2026

Conspiracy theories  Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. Thomas Paine, Common Sense  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Death  The vanity and presumption of governing  beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Poverty It is the practice of what has unjustly obtained the name of civilisation … to make some provision for persons becoming poor and wretched only at the time they become so. Would it not, even as a matter of economy, be far better to adopt means to prevent their becoming poor? This can best be done by making every person when arrived at the age of twenty-one years an inheritor of something to begin with. Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Thomas Paine, The American Crisis   © 2016 Kwiple.com
Time Time makes more converts than reason. Thomas Paine, Common Sense  © 2020 Kwiple.com
 
Wealth inequality I care not how affluent some may be, providing none are miserable in consequence of it. Thomas Paine © 2016 Kwiple.com