“Submission is wholly a vassalage term, repugnant to the dignity of freedom, and an echo of the language used at the Conquest.”

— Thomas Paine , book Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

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English and American political activist 1737–1809

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