1.7 & 1.8 Quotes: Common Sense by William Weaver https://padlet.com/wvweaver/zm1bztheidt8n4nq Choose one of the following quotes to comment on. What does it mean? why or why not. Why would people during this time relate to it? Would this resonate today? How so? Comment under the quote. en-us 2021-01-05 03:22:04 UTC 2026-03-17 16:41:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f451.png Quote #1: “Until an independence is declared the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.” wvweaver https://padlet.com/wvweaver/zm1bztheidt8n4nq/wish/1054550375 Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" ]]> 2021-01-05 05:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/zm1bztheidt8n4nq/wish/1054550375 Quote #2: “Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.” wvweaver https://padlet.com/wvweaver/zm1bztheidt8n4nq/wish/1054561864 Thomas Paine "Common Sense" ]]> 2021-01-05 05:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/zm1bztheidt8n4nq/wish/1054561864 Quote #3: "Even the distance at which the Almighty hath placed England and American is a strong and natural proof that the authority of the one over the other, was never the design of heaven". wvweaver https://padlet.com/wvweaver/zm1bztheidt8n4nq/wish/1054566610 Thomas Paine "Common Sense" ]]> 2021-01-05 05:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wvweaver/zm1bztheidt8n4nq/wish/1054566610