Thomas Paine on Moderation | Basic T-Shirt

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.”

Thomas Paine was the Revolution’s firebrand, the pamphleteer who lit the fuse with Common Sense. His writing was plain, angry, and aimed straight at ordinary people. Paine didn’t plead for independence; he demanded it, calling monarchy an absurdity and self-rule a necessity. His words were so radical they spread faster than muskets.

Paine didn’t stop with American independence—he championed revolution in France and argued for social justice long before it was fashionable. His attacks on organized religion and the powerful made him enemies, but also carved his place as one of democracy’s loudest voices. Paine reminds us that sometimes the sharpest weapon isn’t a sword—it’s a sentence.

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