tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post8475241330206074661..comments2023-10-10T05:07:13.577-07:00Comments on En Tequila Es Verdad: Happy Hour DiscursoDana Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-29670411436671612782008-10-30T08:30:00.000-07:002008-10-30T08:30:00.000-07:00Thomas Paine wrote, in "Common Sense", generally r...Thomas Paine wrote, in "Common Sense", generally regarded as the most influential pamphlet of the American Revolutionary War the following:<BR/><BR/>"Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality<BR/>could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the<BR/>distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted<BR/>for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names<BR/>of oppression and avarice."<BR/><BR/>And:<BR/><BR/>"As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of the Almighty, as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of government by kings."stevechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03031509310091443835noreply@blogger.com