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It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

Thomas Paine
Race, Earth, Common
Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.398, Library of America

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.

Thomas Paine
Men, Land, Earth
Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.399, Library of America

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