Thomas Paine

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January 29, 1737 in Thetford, England, The United Kingdom

died

June 08, 1809

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male

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Politics, Nonfiction

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Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, intellectual and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was born in England and lived and worked there until age 37, when he emigrated to the British American colonies, in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776–1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 14,160 ratings · 714 reviews · 315 distinct works

	Common Sense 3.91 avg rating — 5,318 ratings — published 1776 — 124 editions	My rating:
	Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine, Sidney Hook (Introduction), Jack Fruchtman Jr. (Foreword) 4.03 avg rating — 3,259 ratings — published 1791 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Common Sense and Other Writings by Thomas Paine, Joyce Appleby (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 1,729 ratings — published 1776 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Age Of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 1,561 ratings — published 1794 — 84 editions	My rating:
	Rights Of Man 3.95 avg rating — 1,512 ratings — published 1791 — 66 editions	My rating:
	Collected Writings: Common Sense/The Crisis/Rights of Man/The Age of Reason/Pamphlets/Articles & Letters by Thomas Paine, Eric Foner (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	The Crisis 3.94 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1776 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine, Mark Philip (Editor), Mark Philp (Editor) 3.65 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Rights of Man and Common Sense 4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Life and Major Writings of Thomas Paine: Includes Common Sense/The American Crisis/Rights of Man/The Age of Reason/Agrarian Justice 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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“The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: brotherhood-of-man , doing-good , god , life

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“Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: close-mindedness , simile , stubbornness

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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
― Thomas Paine

tags: blessings , freedom , liberty

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