The Wisdom of Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736 -- June 8, 1809) was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Thetford, Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776--1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. The historian Saul K. Padover in the biography Jefferson: A Great American's Life and Ideas, refers to Paine as "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."

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[ssammarc]

I want to share the wisdom of one of our founding fathers.....we need his clarity today!

[vivalaliberty]

I love this video. I really love it. Thumbs up.

[Ethtk421]

Bankers are the greater evil of religion because, the banks weed in to religion like snakes. As with the Catholics, The Lutherans, The different branches of Christianity and of the Jewish faiths, etc... It is the banks that drive nations into debt by selling loans and creating contracts to make slaves of men. And we must never forget This mans words or the words of Patriots of his age and of ours.

[Seiku]

There are a couple repeated quotes in this but a good video, thanks.

[ScienceWinsEveryTime]

"...however our eyes may be dazzled with snow, or our ears deceived by sound; however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is right."

~ Thomas Paine ~

[mcornille]

enjoyed very much!

[enoch1profittur]

what is this song?

[dododaddy1967]

Yes... I thank you also.

A quote I wish to add...

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

* note

meaning good women also. My reasoning tells me so:)

[Iconoclastithon]

Thank you

: )

RIP to one of the greatest humans that ever lived, an too oft ignoed and forgot unsung hero!