Why Do We Live?

Thomas Paine

“We live to improve, or we live in vain.”
Thomas Paine

A fuller version of the quote is as follows:
”We live to improve, or we live in vain; and therefore we admit of no maxims of government or policy on the mere score of antiquity, or other men’s authority …”
Thomas Paine
"Address and Declaration at a Select Meeting of the Friends of Universal Peace and LIberty, Held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James Street, August 20, 1791, The Following Address and Declaration to out Fellow Citizens was Agreed on and Ordered to be Published.”

Detail of the statue raised to Thomas Paine in his former home in Lewes, Sussex, England.

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