“hath stirred up the Indians and the Negroes to destroy us”
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine 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.
business · English-born philosopher and author (1737–1809) · philosopher · politician · writer · entrepreneur · journalist · prose writer · opinion journalist · also Thomas Paine, Republicus, Paine
Born 9 February 1737 · Died 8 June 1809 · Q126462
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“the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any”
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Public attention spiked: 10,491 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.8× the usual 1,546, with 0 article edits.
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Snopes rated the claim “Author Thomas Paine once wrote, "The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A meme titled, "Damn Those Pesky Facts," shows genuine quotes about religion from former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison, as well as author Thomas Paine.” Mixture.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."” Mostly True.
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The Thomas Paine National Historical Association introduced an early draft of the Declaration that contained evidence of Paine's involvement based on an inscription of "T
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“It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow.”
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2013).
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Paine's life was dramatized in the play Thomas Paine Citizen of the World, produced for the "Tom Paine 200 Celebrations" festival
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Trevor Griffiths published These are the Times: A Life of Thomas Paine, originally written as a screenplay for Richard Attenborough Productions
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The English folk singer Graham Moore released a song called Tom Paine's Bones on an album of the same name
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Richard Thomas appeared on stage in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, in the one-man play Citizen Tom Paine (an adaptation of Howard Fast's 1943 novel of the same title), playing Paine "like a star-spangled tiger, ferocio
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In Paine's birthplace, Thetford, England
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Studied at Thetford Grammar School.
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By the American sculptor and architect John Frazee, the Thomas Paine Monument (see image below)
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When he was 26 years old, Abraham Lincoln wrote a defense of Paine's deism
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English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys (George Chalmer)'s The Life of Thomas Paine, dug up his bones and transported them back to England wi
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“the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.”
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Venezuelan translator Manuel García de Sena published a book in Philadelphia that consisted mostly of Spanish translations of several of Paine's most important works
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After Paine's death, but she chose to omit certain passages from it that were critical of Christianity, most of which were restored in an 1818 printing
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Only six mourners attended Paine's funeral
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Died 1809-06-08.
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“Opis: w liście do George’a Washingtona (1789).”
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“I have no wish to believe on that subject.”
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Paine returned to the subject, writing To the People of England on the Invasion of England advocating the idea
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“An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry”
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Paine was broadly ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity and his attacks on the nation's leaders
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Still under police surveillance, Bonneville took refuge with his father in Evreux
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1792–1795).
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Born 1737-02-09.
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