Thomas Paine

FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: Speeches, Pamphlets, Letters, & Quotes Thoughts on Defensive War, by Thomas Paine July, 1775, Pennsylvania Magazine Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be...

FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: Speeches, Pamphlets, Letters, & Quotes African Slavery in America, by Thomas Paine March 8, 1775 To Americans: That some desperate wretches should be willing to...

Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine, 1776 Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but...

LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL In his 1776 bestseller “Common Sense," Thomas Paine cautions his fellow Americans that “a long habit of not thinking a...

Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine, January 1776 INTRODUCTION Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a...

They Were Believers, Thomas Paine, 1776 Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance;...

They Were Believers, Thomas Paine, 1776 Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance;...

Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty,...

Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine Those words, "temperate and moderate," are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. -- A thing, moderately good...

Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine Those words, "temperate and moderate," are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. -- A thing, moderately good...

Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. Source: Thomas Paine, The...

Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,...