Quotation by Thomas Paine:

It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow... The evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel the precariousness with which all American property is possessed.

Thomas Paine     (more by this author)

1737-1809 (Age at death: 72 approx.)

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 (NS February 9, 1737)  - June 8, 1809) was an English American author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."

Born in Thetford, in the English county of Norfolk, Paine immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776-1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. "Common Sense" was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of 'Common Sense,' the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain."�

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