Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.


Common Sense (1776)

Thomas Paine Quotes

Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual...

Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual...

Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual...

Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual...