Madison Blaxton's Common Sense

Inspired by both love of country instilled in me at a young age by my parents, and my Mom who has her own successful blog (stuffitellmysister.me or on Facebook at Stuff I Tell My Sister), I have decided to start this blog.

On January 10, 1776, a pamphlet was published in the American colonies that would forever change the course of history. The pamphlet? Common Sense. The author? Thomas Paine. Below are the exact words Thomas Paine wrote in his Introduction to Common Sense.

Common Sense

By Thomas Paine

Introduction

PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question, (and in matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry,) and as the king of England hath undertaken in his own right, to support the parliament in what he calls theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either.

In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided everything which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise and the worthy need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious or unfriendly, will cease of themselves, unless too much pains is bestowed upon their conversion.

The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is

THE AUTHOR.

This is the most important time of our lives. It may be the most important time in our history. Please, I beg of you, don't take my words as truth. Don't take ANYONE'S words as truth! Politicians, media and bloggers alike, no matter their ideological affiliation, have an agenda. Do your own research and find the truth for yourself. The difference you'll find on my blog is that you already know where I stand. There IS an agenda, but it's not a hidden one.

It is time we return to our founding principles. It is time we return to America to her people. It is time that we return to Common Sense.