Posts Tagged ‘thomas paine’
The American Crisis
American Minute with Bill Federer After the Continental Army was driven out of New Jersey, an article titled "The American Crisis" was published in the Pennsylvania Journal, DECEMBER 23, 1776. Written by an aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene named Thomas Paine, General Washington ordered it read to the troops: These are the times that [...]
Our Enemies Have Mistaken Our Peace For Cowardice
Democratic Thinker, Background of the American Revolution Thomas Paine, just prior to the Revolution, publishes an anonymous editorial in which he argues that peace without the will to defend it, is not peace but slavery. He also equates religious freedom with political freedom. I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the [...]
A Revolutionary for All Seasons
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Sheldon Richman If it hasn’t been done already, I hope someone is translating Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (particularly part 2) into Arabic. People rising up against dictators throughout the Middle East and North Africa should be reading that book; it will come in handy when they’ve driven the [...]
Thomas Paine on The American Crisis
American Minute with Bill Federer After the Continental Army was driven out of New Jersey, an article titled "The American Crisis" was published in the Pennsylvania Journal, DECEMBER 23, 1776. Written by an aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene named Thomas Paine, General Washington ordered it read to the troops: "These are the times that [...]
The Hard Work of Liberty — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, Quote of the Day Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. -- Thomas Paine The Liberty Letters is a project of The Moral Liberal and the Center for Moral Liberalism. Daily Founding Era quotes, with occasional commentary from editor in chief, Steve Farrell. Help support The Moral Liberal with your purchase of Steve [...]
Letter On The Female Sex — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, August 1775, Thomas Paine O Woman! lovely Woman! Nature made thee to temper man, We had been Brutes without you. OTWAY. IF we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost-without exception-at all times and in all places, adored and oppressed. Man, who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his [...]
African Slavery in America — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, March 8, 1775, Thomas Paine To Americans: That some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, Christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though [...]
The American Crisis 13b — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, Sept. 9 1783, Thomas Paine A Supernumerary Crisis IN "Rivington's New York Gazette," of December 6th, is a publication, under the appearance of a letter from London, dated September 30th; and is on a subject which demands the attention of the United States. The public will remember that a treaty of commerce between the United [...]
The American Crisis 13 — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, April 19, 1783, Thomas Paine Thoughts on the Peace, and the probable Advantages thereof "THE times that tried men's souls," are over — and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. But to pass from the extremes of danger to safety — from the tumult of war to the [...]
The American Crisis 12 — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, Oct. 29, 1782, Thomas Paine To the Earl of Shelburne MY LORD, — A speech, which has been printed in several of the British and New York newspapers, as coming from your lordship, in answer to one from the Duke of Richmond, of the 10th of July last, contains expressions and opinions so new and singular, and so enveloped in [...]
The American Crisis 11b — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, May 31, 1782, Thomas Paine A Supernumerary Crisis. To Sir Guy Carleton IT is the nature of compassion to associate with misfortune; and I address this to you in behalf even of an enemy, a captain in the British service, now on his way to the headquarters of the American army, and unfortunately doomed to death for a crime not his [...]
The American Crisis 11 — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, May 22, 1782, Thomas Paine On the present State of News SINCE the arrival of two, if not three packets in quick succession, at New York, from England, a variety of unconnected news has circulated through the country, and afforded as great a variety of speculation. That something is the matter in the cabinet and councils of our [...]
The American Crisis 10b — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, March 5, 1782, Thomas Paine To the People of America -- On the expenses, arrangements and disbursements for carrying on the war, and finishing it with honor and advantage. WHEN any necessity or occasion has pointed out the convenience of addressing the public, I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular [...]
The American Crisis No. 10 — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine On the King of England's Speech OF all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in matters which concern us, or concern us not, it alike provokes in us a desire to know them. Although the situation of America, superior to [...]
The American Crisis No. 9b — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, Oct. 4, 1780, Thomas Paine The Crisis Extraordinary. On the Subject of Taxation. IT IS impossible to sit down and think seriously on the affairs of America, but the original principles upon which she resisted, and the glow and ardor which they inspired, will occur like the undefaced remembrance of a lovely scene. To trace over [...]
The American Crisis No. 9 — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, June 9, 1790, Thomas Paine HAD America pursued her advantages with half the spirit that she resisted her misfortunes, she would, before now, have been a conquering and a peaceful people; but lulled in the lap of soft tranquillity, she rested on her hopes, and adversity only has convulsed her into action. Whether subtlety or [...]
The American Crisis VIII — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, March 1780, Thomas Paine Address to the People of England "TRUSTING (says the king of England in his speech of November last,) in the divine providence, and in the justice of my cause, I am firmly resolved to prosecute the war with vigor, and to make every exertion in order to compel our enemies to equitable terms of peace and [...]
Thou Shalt Not Kill … a Convicted Murderer? by Steve Farrell
Missing the Mark With Religion, Part 19 Since the dawn of creation the law of God to man has been "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." (1) Today, we refer to this biblical principle in public law as capital punishment. Interestingly, regardless of the fact that the death penalty's origin is found in the Bible - nearly [...]
Why ‘One Nation Under God’ Matters, by Steve Farrell
Missing the Mark With Religion, Part 16 "One nation under God" was the nasty little phrase that aroused the righteous indignation of the infamous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional, and still inspires secularists of various stripes to oppose it today. That the voluntary recitation of [...]
