About Thomas Paine:
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas PaineIt is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Thomas PaineThose who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas PaineEvery religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Thomas Paine
