...Ronald Reagan (who hardly ever looked glum in his life) was fond of quoting Tom Paine's adage that "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Newt Gingrich believed that what made Republicans unbeatable was their willingness to embrace the future...

...as a text that eschews mere politics for the higher ground of moral certitude and ethical challenge. "We have it in our power to begin the world over again," Paine states in Common Sense (ColW, 52). His words announce the universal import of the American opportunity...

...herself . . . Thomas Paine, that fiery soul who'd died two centuries ago in Greenwich Village, once said, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Maybe some of us do. But some of us don't. For Bruce it was too late. For Maxine, too. It wasn't too...

...will ever fully comprehend. Secular Revelations INTRODUCTION The Constitution and American Literature We have it in our power to begin the world over again....hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. TOM PAINE, Common Sense, 1776 What has the Constitution to do with American literature? This argument...

...world in the context of international American Studies. Thus we can reanimate Paine's words from 1776, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again," this time with "we" meaning all nations. What's more, we must. ,Opinion is a flitting thing6 : Denkweisen...

...'strange'; it was simply common sense. 'The birthday of a new world is at hand', he exulted in 1776; 'we have it in our power to begin the world over again'. 10 The breaddi of die millennial vision was nowhere clearer dian in Brackenridge's Six Political Discourses...

...freedom." Or as Reagan used to say (quoting the polemicist of the American Revolution Thomas Paine), "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." As another illustration of the underlying pervasiveness of the American Ideology, this was also a favorite...

...that a youthful and elderly partnership has within its hand to achieve. As Tom Paine put it in 1 776, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." 76 The Golden Age We stand on the frontier of a golden age, one where there is no large threat to our...

...IBM. AOL etc. No wonder that the cover of the first British issue of Wired magazine solemnly stated: 'We have it in our power to begin the world over again', and this creative ability was claimed to be equally shared among virtually every person who would not...

...had come for action, not debate; for resolution, not timidity. For at this moment, Paine promised, "we have it in our power to begin the world over again." Americans IN THEIR OWN WORDS Anglican Loyalist in New York City, 1776 The Reverend Charles Inglis,...