"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which..." - Quote by Thomas Paine
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.
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“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
“If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.”
“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?”