"But there is another and great distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of Heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind."
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Thomas Paine, "Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession", Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
1737 – 1809
britisch-US-amerikanischer [[Politiker]]
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