The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man…

Thomas Paine
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
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The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. ✨ Thomas Paine (1819). The American Crisis, p.20
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. ✨ Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). Paine: Political Writings, p.23, Cambridge University Press
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves. ✨ Thomas Paine (1819). The political and miscellaneous work … ▶

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

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