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Thomas Paine's Common Sense sold an estimated 500,000 copies and reached a vast audience by arguing for independence in plain language that everyday colonists could understand.Thomas Paine = American political writer and philosopher whose pamphlet Common Sense (1776) helped inspire the American Revolution
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George Washington ordered that Thomas Paine's American Crisis be read aloud to troops before the Battle of Trenton to boost morale during the desperate winter of 1776.
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Though celebrated as a hero during the Revolution, Thomas Paine's controversial religious views and criticisms of George Washington left him largely forgotten and friendless at the time of his death.
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Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance.† (source)
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A fellow named Thomas Paine wrote the little book.† (source)
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It was here, Robert, at the very core of this young American nation, that our brightest forefathers—John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine—all warned of the profound dangers of interpreting the Bible literally.† (source)
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly ...it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.— Thomas Paine† (source)
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—Thomas Paine, The Crisis December 1776† (source)
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The hard-headed Dundee owner was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine whose book in rejoinder to Burke's arraignment of the French Revolution had then been published for some time and had gone everywhere.† (source)
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—THOMAS PAINE ON THE DAY JAPANESE BOMBS surprised the sailors at Pearl Harbor there was a six-year spread among the flagraisers-to-be.† (source)
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Adams had accused Thomas Paine of being better at tearing down than building.† (source)
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—THOMAS PAINE, COMMON SENSE† (source)
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This he attributed in good part to the pamphlet Common Sense, published earlier in the year, the author of which, Thomas Paine, was as yet unknown.† (source)
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—THOMAS PAINE, COMMON SENSE† (source)
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The birth of a new nation was at hand, perhaps truly, as Thomas Paine had written, a new world.† (source)
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But of greatest importance, as time would tell, was the impression made on Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense, who had recently volunteered to serve as a civilian aide on Greene's staff.† (source)
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