What Thomas Paine thinks about agency

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Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809), born in Norfolk, England; author of Common Sense, a central text behind the call for American independence, and Rights of Man.

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1. c. 1791

   Our readingEach generation must be as free to act for itself as those before it

   Their wordsEvery age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

   ↗Rights of Man (1791-1792)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book