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“Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”

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Author:John Adams

“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self. {On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine}”

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Book:Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle

Source: Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle

“Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.”

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Author:Fiona Shaw

“My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.”

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Book:The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams

Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams

“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.”

“There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.”

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Author:Jay Roach

“The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.”

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Author:Christopher Lasch

“I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.”

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Author:Richard Attenborough

“How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.”

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Author:Burl Ives

“I never tire of reading Tom Paine.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln