Thursday, April 29, 2010

Burchell on mankind

"Man is the animal who thinks he is not an animal." Kenneth W. Burchell.

Thomas Paine on republican virtue.

"When republican virtue fails, slavery ensues." Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Thomas Paine on Government.

"Governments, so far from being always the cause or means of order, are often the destruction of it." Thomas Paine, Rights of Man II, 1792.

Review of Thomas Paine -- A Collection of Unknown Writings, ed. Hazel Burgess, London: Palgrave McMillan, 2010.

Just posted to this blog, a review of Thomas Paine -- A Collection of Unknown Writings, ed. Hazel Burgess, London: Palgrave McMillan, 2010. Just click on the right on the upper right hand side of this page to read in its entirety.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Thomas Paine on morality.

"As for morality, the knowledge of it exists in every man's conscience." Age of Reason II, 1795.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Thomas Paine on taxes and war.

“In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.” Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, pt I, 1791.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Thomas Paine on Ideas


"Let but a single idea begin and a thousand will soon follow." Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, 1795.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Thomas Paine on nature.

"He who takes nature for his guide is not easily beaten out of his argument." Thomas Paine -- Common Sense, 1776.

Glenn Beck -- Avatard

Glenn Beck is the avatard of the Right.