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Thomas Paine

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)

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Thomas Paine was a male philosopher, politician, writer, and entrepreneur born in Thetford on 9 February 1737. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of Great Britain, the United States, and France. Paine served as a member of the French National Assembly and worked in Paris. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. His notable works include *Common Sense*, *The Age of Reason*, and *Rights of Man*.

Paine practiced deism and spoke French and English. He died in Greenwich Village on 8 June 1809 and was buried in New Rochelle. His writings have been described by sources such as the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition and the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*. He is referenced by 2,601 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 9 February 1737
Died: 8 June 1809
Works: 873

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Lettre de Thomas Paine sur les cultes
Common Sense
Letter from Thomas Paine to George Washington, President of the United States
The age of reason
Prospects on the rubicon, or, An investigation into the causes and consequences of the politics to be agitated at the meeting of Parliament

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1737
Active to: 1809

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 398
Total plays: 3,070

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Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual. He lived and worked in Britain until age 37, when he emigrated to the British American colonies, in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contribution was the powerful, widely-read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and of The American Crisis (1776–1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Thomas+Paine">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell.”
“This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
“A man who is so exceedingly civil that for the sake of quietude and a peaceable name will silently see the community imposed upon, or their rights invaded, may, in his principles, be a good man, but cannot be stiled a useful one, neither does he come up to the full mark of his duty; for silence becomes a kind of crime when it operates as a cover or an encouragement to the guilty.”
“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”
“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end.”

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Works in European collections

23 objects attributed to Thomas Paine, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain, February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809; /ˈtɒməs ˈpeɪn/) was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) framed the Patriot argument for independence from Great Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. Paine advanced Enlightenment-era arguments for human rights that shaped revolutionary discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.

Born in Thetford, Norfolk, Paine immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every American Patriot read his 47-page pamphlet Common Sense, which catalyzed the call for independence from Great Britain. He followed that breakthrough with the pro-independence American Crisis pamphlet series. Paine returned to Britain in 1787 and wrote Rights of Man (1791) to rebut critics of the French Revolution, particularly the Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke. His authorship of the tract led to a trial and conviction in absentia in England in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel.

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