The Last Time Democracy Almost Died
Kent State and the War That Never Ended
Harvard Historian Jill Lepore notes:
“What is the liberal case for the nation?
Nation-states are people with a common past, half-history, half-myth, who live
under the rule of a government in the form of a state. Liberal nation-states
are collections of individuals whose rights as citizens are guaranteed by the
government. The United States is a liberal, democratic nation held together by
the strength of our ideas and by the force of our disagreements.”
The Sharpened Quill: Was Thomas Paine too much of a
freethinker for the country he helped free? By Jill Lepore
Famous Quotes of Thomas Paine (The
Age of Reason):
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“I have always strenuously supported the
right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be
to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his
present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
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“Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery
of the universe still goes on.”
·
“Man cannot make principles, he can only
discover them.”
These Truths by Jill Lepore – Review:
