Edmund Morgan Quotes
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
Edmund Morgan
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how anyone could remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them.
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No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.
Michael Jackson
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
Edmund Morgan
