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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-10-19

A quotation from Thomas Paine

Because a body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American political philosopher and writer
Rights of Man (1791)

More info about this quote: wist.info/paine-thomas/40072/

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Because a body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody. - Thomas Paine
2025-10-11

We all want world peace—and that is generally a function of maintaining international relations. So this week’s post aims squarely at... Dr Evil?

nonzerosum.games/international

We all want world peace—and that is generally a function of maintaining international relations. So this week’s post aims squarely at... Dr Evil? #GeoPolitics #Conflict #Tariffs #Liberalism #Realpolitik #WorldPeace #Kant #ThomasPaine #ThomasHobbes

DR EVIL & REALPOLITIK

Dennis ADharmaDog
2025-10-10

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If you plan on joining No Kings rallies and have yet to find a slogan for your sign, Paine’s got you covered: “In America, the law is king!” “No King! No Tyranny!” “Monarchy hath poisoned the republic.”

In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings − and for being skeptical

‘In America, the law is king!’ ‘No King! No Tyranny!’ For a skeptical Thomas Paine, every day was ‘No Kings Day.’
theconversation.com/in-1776-th

Don Hawkins - W7DAHdonhawkins
2025-10-08

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.” —Thomas Paine

Don Hawkins - W7DAHdonhawkins
2025-10-08

“No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.”

Thomas Paine

Wisdom in Spacewisdom@c.im
2025-10-05

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
-- Thomas Paine

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Colorado Authors LeagueColoradoAuthors@romancelandia.club
2025-09-22

In these trying times of scary climate change, as autocracy threatens to end democracy, Making Global Sense by Judah Freed revives the ideas and ideals of Thomas Paine and the Enlightenment to champion 21st century freedom and enlightenment. The book shows how we got to where we are, and what we can do from here. "A must-read."
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amazon.com/Making-Global-Sense

book cover. Title on parchment with the globe in the "O" of "Global"
Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-09-15

The radical left is—and has always been—skeptical of God Kings, in the spirit of #ThomasPaine.

inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/s

Wisdom in Spacewisdom@c.im
2025-07-12

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
-- Thomas Paine

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2025-07-04

Renewing a Desecrated Declaration of Independence
consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/
If America is to be what the Revolution envisioned on July 4, 1776, a nation governed by laws, then the American people must speak out and defend that vision, writes Dennis Kucinich. By Dennis Kucinich Substack In 1776, Thomas Paine…
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"A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody." ~ #ThomasPaine

2025-05-28

En büyük suçları işlemek için ya
çok ahlaksız ya da çok dindar
olmak gerekir.

Um die schwersten Verbrechen zu begehen, muss man entweder sehr unmoralisch oder sehr religiös sein.

Thomas Paine
philosophicalconscious

#ThomasPaine

En büyük suçları işlemek için ya
çok ahlaksız ya da çok dindar
olmak gerekir.

Thomas Paine

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Um die schwersten Verbrechen zu begehen, muss man entweder sehr unmoralisch oder sehr religiös sein.

Thomas Paine

philosophicalconscious

Thomas Paine
Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-05-25

When one person has all the power, that person makes all the rules.

In a free country, the rules are in charge - not just one person.

Everyone, even the leaders, follows the same rules.

——

“For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”

- #ThomasPaine, Common Sense, 1776

Wisdom in Spacewisdom@c.im
2025-05-01

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
-- Thomas Paine

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