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The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

Thomas Paine
Home, Government, People
Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.430

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

Thomas Paine
4th Of July, Home, Character
Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.92, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

Thomas Paine
Mother, Religious, Home
Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.25, Penguin

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

Thomas Paine
Home, Choices, Mind
Thomas Paine (1908). “Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker”

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

Thomas Paine
Religious, Home, Discovery
Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.26, Penguin

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