Thomas Paine Quotes
An Englishman
He chose to use a Pseudonym as he could have been hung for Treason for its contents.
Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, British American Political Philosopher Name that he used as the Author of Common Sense in 1778
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Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights. Historian Saul K. Padover described him as "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".
