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Quotes by Thomas Paine

An English corset-maker turned pamphleteer, Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense (1776), which rallied the American colonies to independence, and The American Crisis, read aloud to Washington’s troops. He later defended the French Revolution in Rights of Man and was elected to the National Convention in Paris.

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These are the times that try men's souls.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, opening sentence of The Crisis No. I (December 1776), as Paine quotes it in The Crisis No. XIII, 1776 Verified quote Read its story
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