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Thomas Paine
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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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. |
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The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy. |
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service to their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. |
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must... undergo the fatigue of supporting it. |
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again. |
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