Sir John Bayley vs. Thomas Paine
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Sir John Bayley
1793 – 1871
Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet, PC, was an English judge.
"If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if …"
Thomas Paine
1737 – 1809
Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) framed the Patriot argument for independence from Great Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. Paine advanced Enlightenment-era arguments for human rights that shaped revolutionary discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.
"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
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