Thomas Paine, a reluctant English tax collector and failed businessman who arrived in America on the eve of revolution, published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. "In the ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...

The third person shown in the "Damn Those Pesky Facts" meme was Thomas Paine. The writer is perhaps best known for his pamphlet titled, "Common Sense." The quote in the meme that was attributed to ...

Paine, Common Sense. The effect of Paine’s post was immediate and electric. As historian Albert Marrin puts it in his biography, “Thomas Paine,” the pamphlet “spread like fire in dry grass.

Re “America’s greatest Founding Father: Thomas Paine’s ... golden statue of Paine right in the center of town. I had read passages of “Common Sense” but had not known that Paine, who ...

Not far away sits the smaller monument to Thomas ... read “Common Sense” in taverns and homes and passed it around like contraband. Some half a million copies were printed, and Paine donated ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...