Status Updates From Common Sense

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.

Initiative to the history of American Revolution on 4th July 1776, through the most influential political pamphlet “Common Sense”

I just keep rereading the first bit of the first section because its so good 🫨👍

‘The mind of the multitude is left at random, and seeing no fixed object before them, they pursue such as fancy or opinion starts. Nothing is criminal; there is no such thing as treason; wherefore, every one thinks himself at liberty to act as he pleases.’

‘The present state of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflexion.’ 👀

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‘We are not the little people now, which we were sixty years ago; at that time we might have trusted our property in the streets, or fields rather; and slept securely without locks or bolts to our doors or windows. The case now is altered, and our methods of defence ought to improve with our increase of property.’