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"Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us."

#OTD in 1776.

Publication of Common Sense written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

It was published anonymously at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation.