...por ibid.. p. 251. clara audaciosamente que: The cause of America isina great measure the cause ofall mankind. Many circumstances have and will arise, which...are not local, but universal, and through which the principie qf ali lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event qf which their affections are interested....

...Sense, Thomas Paine rallied the patriots of the rebellious colonies with the stirring assertion that "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind." Rarely do we get the chance to fight for a great cause, to come together as citizens and neighbors...

...ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. — JOHN ADAMS, 1765 The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. —THOMAS PAINE, 1776 The great advantage of the Americans is that they have arrived at a state of...

...job. Teaching. Not thinking about political philosophy. Then and now. There and here. Thomas Paine. "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind." How local circumstances could give rise to universal principles. "The laying a Country desolate with...

...tolerance. America, in Nast's depiction, is "everyone," a visual echo of Thomas Paine's formulation that "the cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind,"3 and an anticipation of Newt Gingrich's "Central Proposition" of American history: "There...

...shape the rhetorical stances as well as the themes of later generations. Common Sense insists that "the cause of America is in a great measure the cause of mankind," but it also orders Americans to protect themselves from the rest of the world.14 Paine blithely...

...injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion. J &Q M i ɓr d / _ bQ ~ 9Yu ( D (N H C : o t.e / U " %p hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers...

...virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. freedom and security, " "...The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind, "51 John Locke, The Second Treatises on Government, 1 690, said the following: "MEN being, as has been...

...course both difficult and frightening, but ending with a triumph that was inevitable: COMMON SENSE The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. . . . Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction...

...irresistible." Thomas Jefferson "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." James Madison "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind." Thomas Paine "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." "I am not a Virginian, but an...