The Federalist Patriot
Founders' Quote Daily
"Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could
have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it
murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my
property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in
it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will,
am I to suffer it?"
-- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)
Reference: Paine, Collected Writings, Library of America, p. 97
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Thank you, Tommy Paine, for illuminating our current situation. Just because a war is hard and awful does not make it wrong or ill-advised.
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