by Thomas Paine, and I’ll quote from it in this post. But hey, I just quoted Angelica Schulyer! Here she is, with her sisters, and other members of the Hamilton company, at the White House.
Now to quote T Paine himself. There’s a wonderful passage from toward the end of Common Sense. Here’s the setup.
We ought to reflect, that there are three different ways, by which an independancy may hereafter be effected… By the legal voice of the people in Congress; by a military power; or by a mob
And here’s the payoff.
Should an independancy be brought about by the first of these means, we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Feel free to share your own favorite quotes from Thomas Paine, Lin-Manuel Miranda, or…