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The Daily Thomas Paine - A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age by Thomas Paine; Edward G. Gray (Editor, Foreword by)
Category: Gifts | Series: A\Year of Quotes Ser.
Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis, Paine codified both colonial outrage and the intellectual justification for inde ...Show more
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin American Library
One of the great classics on democracy, "Rights of Man" was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - ...Show more
The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine
Category: Classics SPECIALS
The Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflectio ...Show more
The Rights of Man and Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Category: History
Tom Paine is celebrated for the part he played in both the American and French Revolutions. Though an Englishman by birth, he reacted violently against the political order of eighteenth-century England and in favour of radical reform. So well thought of was he outside Great Britain that he became a dist ...Show more