NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – Nothing has been easy for Thomas Paine, the Revolutionary War patriot, agitator and pamphleteer, since New York state awarded him 277 acres here in 1784. Residents in what ...

Beyond Common Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine ... it leads to nothing here or hereafter.” As maddening as Christianity was for Paine, unlike psychiatry, Christianity ...

Thomas Paine ... "In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments and common sense," Paine wrote. "The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all ...

etc. In his 1795 essay, which he entitled Dissertations on First Principles of Government, Thomas Paine wrote this as his last paragraph: An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty.

On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.” 1787, Benjamin Rush -the beginning of the book, Citizen Tom Paine, by Howard Fast On this 4 th of July weekend the name ...