One of them is when he says "Say not that this is revenge".
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In Common Sense, Thomas Paine advocated independence from Great Britain
Thomas Paine
There were many reasons........he thought it was not right .... how the king taxed them and pressured them.
He had said that citizens, not kings and queens, should make laws.
A famous quote from him comes from one of his books during the revolution, called The Crisis. Thhe quote is: "These are the times that try men's souls." Toleration is not the oppositeof intolerance but the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.-- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man [Excerpt]He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression.-- Thomas Paine, Dissertations on First Principles of Government (July 7, 1795), as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794) I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794), thanks to Laird Wilcox, ed, The Writer's Rights (2002) p. 31
Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense", "The Crisis", "The Right of Man", and "The Age of Man"
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine advocated independence from Great Britain
thomas paine
Thomas Paine
He had said that citizens, not kings and queens, should make laws.
There were many reasons........he thought it was not right .... how the king taxed them and pressured them.
They oppose or point out problems with another person's argument.
He had said that citizens, not kings and queens, should make laws.
A famous quote from him comes from one of his books during the revolution, called The Crisis. Thhe quote is: "These are the times that try men's souls." Toleration is not the oppositeof intolerance but the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.-- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man [Excerpt]He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression.-- Thomas Paine, Dissertations on First Principles of Government (July 7, 1795), as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794) I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794), thanks to Laird Wilcox, ed, The Writer's Rights (2002) p. 31
Answer this question… They oppose or point out problems with another person's argument.
1. Thomas Paine meant that the more you inquire about something, the less error and mistakes come from it, and more truth will.It means you can not make a problem worse by inquiring about it, you can only lessen the error within it.
He thought that the people should make the laws because they are the ones that know which laws would help them and the community.