 | Kristin Shrader-Frechette - Philosophy - 2002 - 284 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither...a property in the generations which are to follow. 53 Those who favor permanent, geological disposal of radioactive waste probably would agree that government... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 300 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither...a property in the generations which are to follow. Rights of Man, I, 1791 Every generation is and must be competent to all the purposes which its occasions... | |
 | Mona Scheuermann - History - 278 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation property in the generations which are to follow. (90-91) The argument that no previous generation has... | |
 | Marjorie Kelly - Business & Economics - 2001 - 290 pages
...must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it ---- Man has no property in man; neither has any generation...a property in the generations which are to follow (italics in original).23 Every generation is free to act for itself, Paine reminds us. We are free,... | |
 | Harriet Devine - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 442 pages
...fraud, effigy, and show."9 He attacks Burke's belief in the power of the past to bend the present. "Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.""1 Government is for the living, not for the dead. In supreme confidence in the coming day... | |
 | Eric Foner - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 378 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation property in the generations which are to follow. ... I am contending for the rights of the living,... | |
 | Matthew McCormack - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...present: 'The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither...generation a property in the generations which are to follow'.*1 The notion that no man should have property in another was central to Paine's thought: in... | |
 | Craig Nelson - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 436 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither...a property in the generations which are to follow. . . . Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require.... | |
 | Susan Manly - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 222 pages
...must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it .... Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.6' Campbell elucidates his terms in a manner which prefigures Paine 's: ... I have used the... | |
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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in... 
