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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…
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Born 9 February 1737 · Died 8 June 1809 · Q126462
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2026· 6 entries
Legacy obituary: Cliff PAINE Obituary (2026) - Tindle Surrey and Hants
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“hath stirred up the Indians and the Negroes to destroy us”
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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, 7× the usual 1,500, with 0 article edits.
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2022· 3 entries
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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Snopes 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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2019· 1 entry
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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2018· 1 entry
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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2015· 1 entry
“It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow.”
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2013).
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2009· 1 entry
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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2008· 1 entry
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. (da The age of reason, Nu Vision Pubblication, 2008, p. 22)”
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2005· 1 entry
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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1995· 1 entry
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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1987· 1 entry
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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1964· 1 entry
In Paine's birthplace, Thetford, England
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1895· 1 entry
“It will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. (da Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation, 1792, in The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III, a cura di Moncure Daniel Conway, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895)”
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1852· 2 entries
“Die Gesellschaft ist in jedem Zustande ein Segen, während die Regierung selbst im besten Zustande nur ein nothwendiges, im schlechtesten Zustande aber ein unerträgliches Uebel ist; [...]." - Der gesunde Menschenverstand, in: Die politischen Werke von Thomas Paine, Erster Band, Philadelphia 1852. S. 178 Google Books”
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“A Letter: Being an Answer to a Friend, on the publication of The Age of Reason" (12 May 1797), published in an 1852 edition of The Age of Reason, p. 205”
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1839· 1 entry
By the American sculptor and architect John Frazee, the Thomas Paine Monument (see image below)
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1835· 1 entry
When he was 26 years old, Abraham Lincoln wrote a defense of Paine's deism
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1819· 1 entry
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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1818· 1 entry
“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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1811· 1 entry
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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1810· 1 entry
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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1809· 28 entries
Only six mourners attended Paine's funeral
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Died 1809-06-08.
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“(Original engl.: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; [...]." - Common Sense (14. Februar 1776), Philadelphia: Bradford. MDCCLXXVI. p. 7 Google Books, en.wikisource)”
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“The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772), p. 20”
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“La tiranía, como el infierno, no es fácil de vencer; pero tenemos este consuelo: que cuanto más duro es el conflicto, tanto más glorioso es el triunfo.”
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“Una cosa moderatamente buona non è tanto buona quanto dovrebbe. La moderazione nel carattere è sempre una virtù, ma la moderazione nei principi è sempre un vizio.”
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“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.”
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“La virtud no es hereditaria.”
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“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.”
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“Opis: w liście do George’a Washingtona (1789).”
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“britisch-US-amerikanischer Politiker”
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“Argumentar con una persona que ha renunciado a la lógica es como darle medicina a un hombre muerto.”
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“Il mio paese è il mondo e la mia religione fare del bene. (da I diritti dell'uomo)”
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“El más perfecto gobierno es un mal necesario; el gobierno imperfecto es un mal insoportable.”
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“(en) One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in Kings, is that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an Ass for a Lion.”
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“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
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“Lo que llamamos civilización ha contribuido a hacer una parte de la sociedad más feliz y la otra más desdichada de lo que ambas hubieran sido en su estado natural.”
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“Unabhängigkeit ist mein Glück, und ich sehe die Dinge wie sie sind ohne Rücksicht auf Ort oder Person: mein Vaterland ist die Welt, und meine Religion ist Gutes thun." - Die Rechte des Menschen: Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. Worin Grundsatz und Ausübung verbunden sind. Zweiter Theil, Kopenhagen 1792, S. 115 Google Books”
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“La religione Cristiana è una parodia della venerazione solare, nella quale hanno messo un uomo di nome Cristo al posto del Sole, e gli hanno reso l'adorazione originariamente resa al Sole.”
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“Gdy czytamy o obscenicznych historiach, niecnych uczynkach, okrutnych i poprzedzonych torturami egzekucjach, nieustannej chęci zemsty, którą wypełniona jest ponad połowa Biblii, dochodzimy do wniosku, że należałoby ją raczej nazwać słowem demona niż słowem bożym. Służyła (…) ona korupcji i brutalizacji rodzaju ludzkiego.”
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“Mi patria es el mundo; mis hermanos, todos los hombres.”
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“(Original engl.: "Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good." - "Rights of Man" (1792), Part Two, Chapter V, en.wikisource)”
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“The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. (da An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry)”
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“Misterio, milagro y profecía: Los dos primeros son incompatibles con la verdadera religión, y de la tercera nunca sera demasiado cuanto podamos desconfiar.”
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“Succederà sempre che se i ricchi proteggono i diritti dei poveri, i poveri proteggeranno la proprietà dei ricchi.”
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“La moderación en el temperamento es siempre una virtud; en los principios, es siempre un vicio.”
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“O tempo faz mais transformações do que a razão.”
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“I have no wish to believe on that subject.”
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1804· 1 entry
Paine returned to the subject, writing To the People of England on the Invasion of England advocating the idea
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1803· 1 entry
“An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry”
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1802· 1 entry
Paine was broadly ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity and his attacks on the nation's leaders
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1800· 1 entry
Still under police surveillance, Bonneville took refuge with his father in Evreux
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1792· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1792–1795).
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1737· 1 entry
Born 1737-02-09.
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