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Paine, Thomas

  1. A patriot and author in the Revolutionary War , whose pamphlets, such as Common Senseand the American Crisisseries, urged American independence. He took part in the French Revolution and wrote The Rights of Man to defend it against the criticisms of Edmund Burke . Paine also wrote The Age of Reason , upholding deism .


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Antiochus IV had about as much in common with Aristotle as Rick Santorum has with Thomas Paine.

Both countries were responding to the ideas of radical thinkers like Voltaire, Thomas Paine, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

You know, the great patriot Thomas Paine once said, “love our senior citizens, have a mom, or get out of the way.”

Thomas Paine gets a nod in Going Rogue, and Sarah Palin's not the only conservative who loves this American revolutionary.

I like what Thomas Paine said: The world is my country and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine, a political writer of great force during the revolution, died, aged 72.

Thomas Paine was suffering almost the pangs of starvation in Paris, and Jefferson paid his passage home.

The author whose writings exerted the greatest influence upon Lincoln's mind, in a theological way, was Thomas Paine.

Thomas Paine said, "No man can be happy surrounded by those whose happiness he has destroyed."

In 1774, Thomas Paine, thirty-seven years of age, landed unknown and penniless in the American colonies.

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