 | Thomas Paine - 2002 - 300 páginas
...age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing...tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. Rights of Man, I, 1791 Every generation... | |
 | Brian McCartin - 2001 - 116 páginas
...property in man, every age and generation has the right to be free and act for itself. To presume to rule beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies." Then he disagreed with the common belief that war was a necessity of life. He said wars were created... | |
 | Marjorie Kelly - 2001 - 290 páginas
...Paine, who attacked the idea that some past generation had struck a contract we must honor for eternity. The "vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies," he wrote.22 His attack on eternal contracts in The Rights of Man is memorable: There never did, there... | |
 | Eric Foner - 2005 - 378 páginas
...age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing...tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation property in the generations which are to follow. ... I am contending for the rights... | |
 | Matthew McCormack - 2005 - 244 páginas
...alter their inherited institutions is to alienate them from the rights that they hold in the present: 'The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow'.*1 The notion that no man should... | |
 | Sarah F. Wood - 2005 - 328 páginas
...'those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born', but Paine was certain that 'the vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies'. 13 In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, however, Americas 'living generation' seemed extremely... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 637 páginas
...Paine declared that "Every age and generation must be ... free to act for itself in all cases. , . . The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies." The people of yesterday have "no right ... to bind or to control . . . the people of the present day... | |
 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 páginas
...age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing...tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. . . . Every generation is, and must... | |
 | Thomas Chaimowicz - 2011 - 151 páginas
...Every age and generation must be free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies... Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasion require. It is the... | |
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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. 
