Common Sense
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Why stay loyal to a king when you could govern yourselves?
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If to be in advance of your time, to be a pioneer in the direction of right, is greatness, Thomas Paine was great."Common Sense" was the glorious sun that evolved a new political world; each number of the "Crisis" a brilliant satellite that helped to illumine this New World's long night of Revolution.Product details
- Author
- Thomas Paine
- Edition language
- English
- Available languages
- 25
- Words
- Audiobook length
- 2 h 29 min
- Publisher
- Library of Alexandria Press LLC
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