Thomas Paine - wikipedia Thomas Paine For other people with the same name, see Thomas Paine ( disambiguation ). Thomas Paine Portrait by Laurent Dabos ( c. 1792 ) Thomas Pain ( 1737 - 02 - 09 ) February 9, 1737 Thetford, Norfolk, England June 8, 1809 ( 1809 - 06 - 08 ) ( aged 72 ) New York City, New York, U.S. Era Age of Enlightenment School Enlightenment, liberalism, republicanism Main interests Politics, ethics, religion Influences Jacobin, Voltaire, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Religious Society of Friends, Montesquieu, Benjamin Franklin Influenced Thomas Jefferson, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Mahatma Phule, Moncure D. Conway, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Hitchens, Robert G. Ingersoll Signature Thomas Paine ( or Pain ; February 9, 1737 ( O.S. January 29, 1736 ) -- June 8, 1809 ) 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. '' Born in Thetford in the English county of Norfolk, Paine migrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read ( or listened to a reading of ) his powerful pamphlet Common Sense ( 1776 ), proportionally the all - time best - selling American title, which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. His The American Crisis ( 1776 -- 83 ) was a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, `` Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain. '' Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. He wrote Rights of Man ( 1791 ), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics. His attacks on Anglo - Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel. In 1792, despite not being able to speak French, he was elected to the French National Convention. The Girondists regarded him as an ally. Consequently, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy. In December 1793, he was arrested and was taken to Luxembourg Prison in Paris. While in prison, he continued to work on The Age of Reason ( 1793 -- 94 ). Future President James Monroe used his diplomatic connections to get Paine released in November 1794. He became notorious because of his pamphlets The Age of Reason, in which he advocated deism, promoted reason and free thought, and argued against institutionalized religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. He also published the pamphlet Agrarian Justice ( 1797 ), discussing the origins of property, and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income. In 1802, he returned to the U.S. where he died on June 8, 1809. Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 American Revolution 2.1 Common Sense ( 1776 ) 2.2 The American Crisis ( 1776 ) 2.3 Foreign affairs 2.3. 1 The Silas Deane Affair 2.4 Funding the Revolution 3 Rights of Man 4 The Age of Reason 4.1 Criticism of George Washington 5 Later years 6 Death 7 Ideas 7.1 Slavery 7.2 Agrarian Justice 8 Religious views 9 Legacy 9.1 Lincoln 9.2 Edison 9.3 South America 9.4 Memorials 10 In popular culture 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 13.1 Bibliography 13.2 Fiction 13.3 Primary sources 14 External links Early Life and education Paine was born on January 29, 1736 ( NS February 9, 1737 ), the son of Joseph Pain ( or Paine ) and Frances ( née Cocke ), in Thetford, Norfolk, England. Joseph was a Quaker and Frances an Anglican. Born Thomas Pain, despite claims that he changed his family name upon his emigration to America in 1774, he was using Paine in 1769, while still in Lewes, Sussex. Old School at Thetford Grammar School, where Paine was educated He attended Thetford Grammar School ( 1744 -- 49 ), at a time when there was no compulsory education. At the age of 13, he was apprenticed to his stay - maker father. Paine researchers contend his father 's occupation has been widely misinterpreted to mean that he made the stays in ladies ' corsets, which likely was an insult later invented by his political foes. Actually, the father and apprentice son made the thick rope stays ( also called stay ropes ) used on sailing ships. Thetford historically had maintained a brisk trade with the downriver, then major, port town of King 's Lynn. A connection to shipping and the sea explains why, in late adolescence, Thomas enlisted and briefly served as a privateer, before returning to Britain in 1759. There, he became a master stay - maker, establishing a shop in Sandwich, Kent. On September 27, 1759, Thomas Paine married Mary Lambert. His business collapsed soon after. Mary became pregnant ; and, after they moved to Margate, she went into early labor, in which she and their child died. In July 1761, Paine returned to Thetford to work as a supernumerary officer. In December 1762, he became an Excise Officer in Grantham, Lincolnshire ; in August 1764, he was transferred to Alford, also in Lincolnshire, at a salary of £ 50 per annum. On August 27, 1765, he was dismissed as an Excise Officer for `` claiming to have inspected goods he did not inspect. '' On July 31, 1766, he requested his reinstatement from the Board of Excise, which they granted the next day, upon vacancy. While awaiting that, he worked as a stay - maker. Again, he was making stay ropes for shipping, not stays for corsets. Thomas Paine 's house in Lewes In 1767, he was appointed to a position in Grampound, Cornwall ; subsequently, he asked to leave this post to await a vacancy, thus, he became a schoolteacher in London. On February 19, 1768, he was appointed to Lewes in Sussex, a town with a tradition of opposition to the monarchy and pro-republican sentiments going back to the revolutionary decades of the 17th century. Here he lived above the fifteenth - century Bull House, the tobacco shop of Samuel Ollive and Esther Ollive. Paine first became involved in civic matters when he was based in Lewes. He appears in the Town Book as a member of the Court Leet, the governing body for the town. He was also a member of the parish vestry, an influential local church group whose responsibilities for parish business would include collecting taxes and tithes to distribute among the poor. On March 26, 1771, at the age of 34, he married Elizabeth Ollive, his landlord 's daughter. Plaque at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, East Sussex, south east England From 1772 to 1773, Paine joined excise officers asking Parliament for better pay and working conditions, publishing, in summer of 1772, The Case of the Officers of Excise, a twenty - one - page article, and his first political work, spending the London winter distributing the 4,000 copies printed to the Parliament and others. In spring of 1774, he was again dismissed from the excise service for being absent from his post without permission ; his tobacco shop failed, too. On April 14, to avoid debtors ' prison, he sold his household possessions to pay debts. On June 4, 1774, he formally separated from his wife Elizabeth and moved to London, where, in September, mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Commissioner of the Excise George Lewis Scott introduced him to Benjamin Franklin, who suggested emigration to British colonial America, and gave him a letter of recommendation. In October, Thomas Paine emigrated from Great Britain to the American colonies, arriving in Philadelphia on November 30, 1774. He barely survived the transatlantic voyage. The ship 's water supplies were bad, and typhoid fever killed five passengers. On arriving at Philadelphia, he was too sick to disembark. Benjamin Franklin 's physician, there to welcome Paine to America, had him carried off ship ; Paine took six weeks to recover. He became a citizen of Pennsylvania `` by taking the oath of allegiance at a very early period. '' In January 1775, he became editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine, a position he conducted with considerable ability. American Revolution Common Sense, published in 1776 Common Sense ( 1776 ) Main article : Common Sense ( pamphlet ) Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution, which rests on his pamphlets, especially Common Sense, which crystallized sentiment for independence in 1776. It was published in Philadelphia on January 10, 1776, and signed anonymously `` by an Englishman. '' It became an immediate success, quickly spreading 100,000 copies in three months to the two million residents of the 13 colonies. During the course of the American Revolution, a total of about 500,000 copies were sold, including unauthorized editions. Paine 's original title for the pamphlet was Plain Truth ; Paine 's friend, pro-independence advocate Benjamin Rush, suggested Common Sense instead. The pamphlet came into circulation in January 1776, after the Revolution had started. It was passed around, and often read aloud in taverns, contributing significantly to spreading the idea of republicanism, bolstering enthusiasm for separation from Britain, and encouraging recruitment for the Continental Army. Paine provided a new and convincing argument for independence by advocating a complete break with history. Common Sense is oriented to the future in a way that compels the reader to make an immediate choice. It offers a solution for Americans disgusted with and alarmed at the threat of tyranny. Paine 's attack on monarchy in Common Sense is essentially an attack on George III. Whereas colonial resentments were originally directed primarily against the king 's ministers and Parliament, Paine laid the responsibility firmly at the king 's door. Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution. It was a clarion call for unity against the corrupt British court, so as to realize America 's providential role in providing an asylum for liberty. Written in a direct and lively style, it denounced the decaying despotisms of Europe and pilloried hereditary monarchy as an absurdity. At a time when many still hoped for reconciliation with Britain, Common Sense demonstrated to many the inevitability of separation. Paine was not, on the whole, expressing original ideas in Common Sense, but rather employing rhetoric as a means to arouse resentment of the Crown. To achieve these ends, he pioneered a style of political writing suited to the democratic society he envisioned, with Common Sense serving as a primary example. Part of Paine 's work was to render complex ideas intelligible to average readers of the day, with clear, concise writing unlike the formal, learned style favored by many of Paine 's contemporaries. Scholars have put forward various explanations to account for its success, including the historic moment, Paine 's easy - to - understand style, his democratic ethos, and his use of psychology and ideology. Common Sense was immensely popular in disseminating to a very wide audience ideas that were already in common use among the elite who comprised Congress and the leadership cadre of the emerging nation, who rarely cited Paine 's arguments in their public calls for independence. The pamphlet probably had little direct influence on the Continental Congress ' decision to issue a Declaration of Independence, since that body was more concerned with how declaring independence would affect the war effort. Paine 's great contribution was in initiating a public debate about independence which had previously been rather muted. One distinctive idea in Common Sense is Paine 's beliefs regarding the peaceful nature of republics ; his views were an early and strong conception of what scholars would come to call the democratic peace theory. Loyalists vigorously attacked Common Sense ; one attack, titled Plain Truth ( 1776 ), by Marylander James Chalmers, said Paine was a political quack and warned that without monarchy, the government would `` degenerate into democracy. '' Even some American revolutionaries objected to Common Sense ; late in life John Adams called it a `` crapulous mass. '' Adams disagreed with the type of radical democracy promoted by Paine ( that men who did not own property should still be allowed to vote and hold public office ), and published Thoughts on Government in 1776 to advocate a more conservative approach to republicanism. Sophia Rosenfeld argues that Paine was highly innovative in his use of the commonplace notion of `` common sense. '' He synthesized various philosophical and political uses of the term in a way that permanently impacted American political thought. He used two ideas from Scottish Common Sense Realism : that ordinary people can indeed make sound judgments on major political issues, and that there exists a body of popular wisdom that is readily apparent to anyone. Paine also used a notion of `` common sense '' favored by philosophes in the Continental Enlightenment. They held that common sense could refute the claims of traditional institutions. Thus, Paine used `` common sense '' as a weapon to delegitimize the monarchy and overturn prevailing conventional wisdom. Rosenfeld concludes that the phenomenal appeal of his pamphlet resulted from his synthesis of popular and elite elements in the independence movement. According to historian Robert Middlekauff, Common Sense became immensely popular mainly because Paine appealed to widespread convictions. Monarchy, he said, was preposterous, and it had a heathenish origin. It was an institution of the devil. Paine pointed to the Old Testament, where almost all kings had seduced the Israelites to worship idols instead of God. Paine also denounced aristocracy, which together with monarchy were `` two ancient tyrannies. '' They violated the laws of nature, human reason, and the `` universal order of things, '' which began with God. That was, Middlekauff says, exactly what most Americans wanted to hear. He calls the Revolutionary generation `` the children of the twice - born, '' because in their childhood they had experienced the Great Awakening, which, for the first time, had tied Americans together, transcending denominational and ethnic boundaries and giving them a sense of patriotism. The American Crisis ( 1776 ) In late 1776, Paine published The American Crisis pamphlet series to inspire the Americans in their battles against the British army. He juxtaposed the conflict between the good American devoted to civic virtue and the selfish provincial man. To inspire his soldiers, General George Washington had The American Crisis, first Crisis pamphlet, read aloud to them. It begins : These are the times that try men 's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country ; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered ; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly : it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods ; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Foreign Affairs In 1777, Paine became secretary of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs. The following year, he alluded to secret negotiation underway with France in his pamphlets. His enemies denounced his indiscretions. There was scandal ; together with Paine 's conflict with Robert Morris and Silas Deane it led to Paine 's expulsion from the Committee in 1779. However, in 1781, he accompanied John Laurens on his mission to France. Eventually, after much pleading from Paine, New York State recognized his political services by presenting him with an estate, at New Rochelle, New York, and Paine received money from Pennsylvania and from Congress at Washington 's suggestion. During the Revolutionary War, Paine served as an aide to the important general, Nathanael Greene. The Silas Deane affair In what may have been an error, and perhaps even contributed to his resignation as the secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs, Paine was openly critical of Silas Deane, an American diplomat who had been appointed in March 1776 by the Congress to travel to France in secret. Deane 's goal was to influence the French government to finance the colonists in their fight for independence. Paine largely saw Deane as a war profiteer who had little respect for principle, having been under the employ of Robert Morris, one of the primary financiers of the American Revolution, and working with Pierre Beaumarchais, a French royal agent sent to the colonies by King Louis to investigate the Anglo - American conflict. Paine labelled Deane as unpatriotic, and demanded that there be a public investigation into Morris ' financing of the Revolution, as he had contracted with his own company for around $500,000. Unfortunately, Paine 's criticisms turned against him. Amongst his criticisms, he had written in the Pennsylvania Packet that France had `` prefaced ( their ) alliance by an early and generous friendship, '' referring to aid that had been provided to American colonies prior to the recognition of the Franco - American treaties. This was effectively an embarrassment to France, which potentially could have jeopardised the alliance. John Jay, the President of the Congress who had been a fervent supporter of Deane, immediately spoke out against Paine 's comments. The controversy eventually became public, and Paine was then denounced as unpatriotic for criticising an American revolutionary. He was even physically assaulted twice in the street by Deane supporters. This much added stress took a large toll on Paine, who was generally of a sensitive character, and resigned as secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in 1779. Funding the Revolution Paine accompanied Col. John Laurens to France and is credited with initiating the mission. It landed in France in March 1781 and returned to America in August with 2.5 million livres in silver, as part of a `` present '' of 6 million and a loan of 10 million. The meetings with the French king were most likely conducted in the company and under the influence of Benjamin Franklin. Upon returning to the United States with this highly welcomed cargo, Thomas Paine and probably Col. Laurens, `` positively objected '' that General Washington should propose that Congress remunerate him for his services, for fear of setting `` a bad precedent and an improper mode. '' Paine made influential acquaintances in Paris, and helped organize the Bank of North America to raise money to supply the army. In 1785, he was given $3,000 by the U.S. Congress in recognition of his service to the nation. Henry Laurens ( father of Col. John Laurens ) had been the ambassador to the Netherlands, but he was captured by the British on his return trip there. When he was later exchanged for the prisoner Lord Cornwallis ( in late 1781 ), Paine proceeded to the Netherlands to continue the loan negotiations. There remains some question as to the relationship of Henry Laurens and Thomas Paine to Robert Morris as the Superintendent of Finance and his business associate Thomas Willing who became the first president of the Bank of North America ( in January 1782 ). They had accused Morris of profiteering in 1779 and Willing had voted against the Declaration of Independence. Although Morris did much to restore his reputation in 1780 and 1781, the credit for obtaining these critical loans to `` organize '' the Bank of North America for approval by Congress in December 1781 should go to Henry or John Laurens and Thomas Paine more than to Robert Morris. In Fashion before Ease ; -- or, -- A good Constitution sacrificed for a Fantastick Form ( 1793 ), James Gillray caricatured Paine tightening the corset of Britannia ; protruding from his coat pocket is a measuring tape inscribed `` Rights of Man '' Paine bought his only house in 1783 on the corner of Farnsworth Avenue and Church Streets in Bordentown City, New Jersey, and he lived in it periodically until his death in 1809. This is the only place in the world where Paine purchased real estate. In 1787, a bridge of Paine 's design was built across the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia. At this time his work on single - arch iron bridges led him back to Paris, France. Because Paine had few friends when arriving in France aside from Lafayette and Jefferson, he continued to correspond heavily with Benjamin Franklin, a long time friend and mentor. Franklin provided letters of introduction for Paine to use to gain associates and contacts in France. Later that year, Paine returned to London from Paris. He then released a pamphlet on August 20 called Prospects on the Rubicon : or, an investigation into the Causes and Consequences of the Politics to be Agitated at the Meeting of Parliament. Tensions between England and France were increasing, and this pamphlet urged the British Ministry to reconsider the consequences of war with France. Paine sought to turn the public opinion against the war to create better relations between the countries, avoid the taxes of war upon the citizens, and not engage in a war he believed would ruin both nations. Rights of Man Main article : Rights of Man See also : Revolution Controversy and Trial of Thomas Paine Back in London by 1787, Paine would become engrossed in the French Revolution after it began in 1789, and decided to travel to France in 1790. Meanwhile, conservative intellectual Edmund Burke launched a counterrevolutionary blast against the French Revolution, entitled Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) ; it strongly appealed to the landed class, and sold 30,000 copies. Paine set out to refute it in his Rights of Man ( 1791 ). He wrote it not as a quick pamphlet, but as a long, abstract political tract of 90,000 words which tore apart monarchies and traditional social institutions. On January 31, 1791, he gave the manuscript to publisher Joseph Johnson. A visit by government agents dissuaded Johnson, so Paine gave the book to publisher J.S. Jordan, then went to Paris, per William Blake 's advice. He charged three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and Thomas Holcroft, with handling publication details. The book appeared on March 13, 1791 and sold nearly a million copies. It was `` eagerly read by reformers, Protestant dissenters, democrats, London craftsman, and the skilled factory - hands of the new industrial north. '' Undeterred by the government campaign to discredit him, Paine issued his Rights of Man, Part the Second, Combining Principle and Practice in February 1792. It detailed a representative government with enumerated social programs to remedy the numbing poverty of commoners through progressive tax measures. Radically reduced in price to ensure unprecedented circulation, it was sensational in its impact and gave birth to reform societies. An indictment for seditious libel followed, for both publisher and author, while government agents followed Paine and instigated mobs, hate meetings, and burnings in effigy. A fierce pamphlet war also resulted, in which Paine was defended and assailed in dozens of works. The authorities aimed, with ultimate success, to chase Paine out of Great Britain. He was then tried in absentia and found guilty, though never executed. The French translation of Rights of Man, Part II was published in April 1792. The translator, François Lanthenas, eliminated the dedication to Lafayette, as he believed Paine thought too highly of Lafayette, who was seen as a royalist sympathizer at the time. The Friends of the People caricatured by Isaac Cruikshank, November 15, 1792, Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine are surrounded by incendiary items ( Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum ) In summer of 1792, he answered the sedition and libel charges thus : `` If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank ; if these things be libellous... let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb. '' Paine was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution, and was granted honorary French citizenship alongside prominent contemporaries such as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others. Paine 's honorary citizenship was in recognition of the publishing of his Rights of Man, Part II and the sensation it created within France. Despite his inability to speak French, he was elected to the National Convention, representing the district of Pas - de-Calais. A few weeks after being elected to the National Convention, Paine was selected as one of nine deputies to be part of the Convention 's Constitutional Committee, who were charged to draft a suitable constitution for the French Republic. He subsequentially participated in the Constitutional Committee in drafting the Girondin constitutional project. He voted for the French Republic ; but argued against the execution of Louis XVI, saying that he should instead be exiled to the United States : firstly, because of the way royalist France had come to the aid of the American Revolution ; and secondly because of a moral objection to capital punishment in general and to revenge killings in particular. However, Paine 's speech in defense of Louis XVI was interrupted by Jean - Paul Marat, who claimed that as a Quaker, Paine 's religious beliefs ran counter to inflicting capital punishment, and thus he should be ineligible to vote. Marat interrupted a second time, stating that the translator was deceiving the convention by distorting the meanings of Paine 's words, prompting Paine to provide a copy of the speech as proof that he was being correctly translated. Regarded as an ally of the Girondins, he was seen with increasing disfavor by the Montagnards, who were now in power, and in particular by Robespierre. A decree was passed at the end of 1793 excluding foreigners from their places in the Convention ( Anacharsis Cloots was also deprived of his place ). Paine was arrested and imprisoned in December 1793. Thomas Paine wrote the second part of Rights of Man on a desk in Thomas ' Clio ' Rickman 's house, with whom he was staying in 1792 before he fled to France. This desk is currently on display in the People 's History Museum in Manchester. The Age of Reason Main article : The Age of Reason Title page from the first English edition of Part I Oil painting by Laurent Dabos, circa 1791 Paine was arrested in France on December 28, 1793. Joel Barlow was unsuccessful in securing Paine 's release by circulating a petition among American residents in Paris. Sixteen American citizens were allowed to plead for Paine 's release to the Convention, yet President Marc - Guillaume Alexis Vadier of the Committee of General Security refused to acknowledge Paine 's American citizenship, stating he was an Englishman and a citizen of a country at war with France. Paine himself protested and claimed that he was a citizen of the U.S., which was an ally of Revolutionary France, rather than of Great Britain, which was by that time at war with France. However, Gouverneur Morris, the American minister to France, did not press his claim, and Paine later wrote that Morris had connived at his imprisonment. Paine narrowly escaped execution. A chalk mark was supposed to be left by the gaoler on the door of a cell to denote that the prisoner inside was due to be removed for execution. In Paine 's case, the mark had accidentally been made on the inside of his door rather than the outside ; this was due to the fact that the door of Paine 's cell had been left open whilst the gaoler was making his rounds that day, since Paine had been receiving official visitors. But for this quirk of fate, Paine would have been executed the following morning. He kept his head and survived the few vital days needed to be spared by the fall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor ( July 27, 1794 ). Paine was released in November 1794 largely because of the work of the new American Minister to France, James Monroe, who successfully argued the case for Paine 's American citizenship. In July 1795, he was re-admitted into the Convention, as were other surviving Girondins. Paine was one of only three députés to oppose the adoption of the new 1795 constitution, because it eliminated universal suffrage, which had been proclaimed by the Montagnard Constitution of 1793. In 1796 a bridge he designed was erected over the mouth of the Wear River at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. This bridge, the Sunderland arch, was after the same design as his Schuylkill River Bridge in Philadelphia and it became the prototype for many subsequent voussoir arches made in iron and steel. In addition to receiving a British patent for the single - span iron bridge, Paine developed a smokeless candle, and worked with inventor John Fitch in developing steam engines. In 1797, Tom Paine lived in Paris with Nicholas Bonneville and his wife. Paine, as well as Bonneville 's other controversial guests, aroused the suspicions of authorities. Bonneville hid the Royalist Antoine Joseph Barruel - Beauvert at his home. Beauvert had been outlawed following the coup of 18 Fructidor on September 4, 1797. Paine believed that America, under President John Adams, had betrayed revolutionary France. Bonneville was then briefly jailed and his presses were confiscated, which meant financial ruin. In 1800, still under police surveillance, Bonneville took refuge with his father in Evreux. Paine stayed on with him, helping Bonneville with the burden of translating the `` Covenant Sea. '' The same year, Paine purportedly had a meeting with Napoleon. Napoleon claimed he slept with a copy of Rights of Man under his pillow and went so far as to say to Paine that `` a statue of gold should be erected to you in every city in the universe. '' Paine discussed with Napoleon how best to invade England and in December 1797 wrote two essays, one of which was pointedly named Observations on the Construction and Operation of Navies with a Plan for an Invasion of England and the Final Overthrow of the English Government, in which he promoted the idea to finance 1,000 gunboats to carry a French invading army across the English Channel. In 1804 Paine returned to the subject, writing To the People of England on the Invasion of England advocating the idea. On noting Napoleon 's progress towards dictatorship, he condemned him as : `` the completest charlatan that ever existed. '' Paine remained in France until 1802, returning to the United States only at President Jefferson 's invitation. Criticism of George Washington Paine believed that U.S. President George Washington had conspired with Robespierre to imprison him. He had felt largely betrayed that Washington, who had been a lifelong friend, did nothing while Paine suffered in prison. While staying with Monroe, he planned to send Washington a letter of grievance on the former President 's birthday. Monroe stopped the letter from being sent just in time, and, after Paine 's criticism of the Jay Treaty, Monroe suggested that Paine reside somewhere else. Still embittered by the perceived betrayal, Paine tried to ruin Washington 's reputation by calling him a treacherous man who was unworthy of his fame as a military and political hero. He sent a stinging letter to Washington, in which he described him as an incompetent commander and a vain and ungrateful person. Paine never received a reply, so he contacted his lifelong publisher, the anti-Federalist Benjamin Bache to publish this Letter to George Washington in 1796. In this scathing publication, Paine wrote : `` the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor ; whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any. '' He further wrote that without the aid of France, Washington could not have succeeded in the Revolution and had `` but little share in the glory of the final event. '' He also commented on Washington 's poor character, saying that Washington had no sympathetic feelings and was a hypocrite. Later years In 1802 or 1803, Paine left France for the United States, paying passage also for Bonneville 's wife, Marguerite Brazier and their three sons, seven - year - old Benjamin, Louis, and Thomas, to whom Paine was godfather. Paine returned to the United States in the early stages of the Second Great Awakening and a time of great political partisanship. The Age of Reason gave ample excuse for the religiously devout to dislike him, and the Federalists attacked him for his ideas of government stated in Common Sense, for his association with the French Revolution, and for his friendship with President Jefferson. Also still fresh in the minds of the public was his Letter to Washington, published six years before his return. This was compounded when his right to vote was denied in New Rochelle on the grounds that Gouverneur Morris did not recognize him as an American, and Washington had not aided him. Brazier took care of Paine at the end of his life and buried him after his death on June 8, 1809. In his will, Paine left the bulk of his estate to Marguerite, including 100 acres ( 40.5 ha ) of his farm so she could maintain and educate Benjamin and his brother Thomas. In 1814, the fall of Napoleon finally allowed Bonneville to rejoin his wife in the United States where he remained for four years before returning to Paris to open a bookshop. Death Paine 's death mask, in the People 's History Museum in Manchester Paine died at the age of 72, at 59 Grove Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, on the morning of June 8, 1809. Although the original building is no longer there, the present building has a plaque noting that Paine died at this location. After his death, Paine 's body was brought to New Rochelle, but the Quakers would not allow it to be buried in their graveyard as per his last will, so his remains were buried under a walnut tree on his farm. In 1819, the English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys ( George Chalmer ) 's The Life of Thomas Paine, dug up his bones and transported them back to England with the intention to give Paine a heroic reburial on his native soil, but this never came to pass. The bones were still among Cobbett 's effects when he died over twenty years later, but were later lost. There is no confirmed story about what happened to them after that, although various people have claimed throughout the years to own parts of Paine 's remains, such as his skull and right hand. At the time of his death, most American newspapers reprinted the obituary notice from the New York Evening Post that was in turn quoting from The American Citizen, which read in part : `` He had lived long, did some good, and much harm. '' Only six mourners came to his funeral, two of whom were black, most likely freedmen. Many years later the writer and orator Robert G. Ingersoll wrote : Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred -- his virtues denounced as vices -- his services forgotten -- his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death. Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend -- the friend of the whole world -- with all their hearts. On the 8th of June 1809, death came -- Death, almost his only friend. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of the dead -- on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated the creed of his head -- and, following on foot, two negroes filled with gratitude -- constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine. Ideas Biographer Eric Foner identifies a utopian thread in Paine 's thought, writing that `` Through this new language he communicated a new vision -- a utopian image of an egalitarian, republican society. '' Paine 's utopianism combined civic republicanism, belief in the inevitability of scientific and social progress and commitment to free markets and liberty generally. The multiple sources of Paine 's political theory all pointed to a society based on the common good and individualism. Paine expressed a redemptive futurism or political messianism. Paine, writing that his generation `` would appear to the future as the Adam of a new world, '' exemplified British utopianism. Thomas Paine 's natural justice beliefs may have been influenced by his Quaker father. Later, his encounters with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas made a deep impression. The ability of the Iroquois to live in harmony with nature while achieving a democratic decision - making process helped him refine his thinking on how to organize society. Portrait of Thomas Paine by Matthew Pratt, 1785 -- 1795 Slavery Paine is sometimes credited with writing `` African Slavery in America, '' the first article proposing the emancipation of African slaves and the abolition of slavery. It was published on March 8, 1775, in the Postscript to the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser ( aka The Pennsylvania Magazine and American Museum ). Citing a lack of evidence that Paine was the author of this anonymously published essay, some scholars ( Eric Foner and Alfred Owen Aldridge ) no longer consider this one of his works. By contrast, John Nichols speculates that his `` fervent objections to slavery '' led to his exclusion from power during the early years of the Republic. Agrarian Justice His last pamphlet, Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly, published in the winter of 1795, further developed his ideas in the Rights of Man, about how land ownership separated the majority of people from their rightful, natural inheritance and means of independent survival. The U.S. Social Security Administration recognizes Agrarian Justice as the first American proposal for an old - age pension and basic income or citizen 's dividend ; per Agrarian Justice : In advocating the case of the persons thus dispossessed, it is a right, and not a charity... ( Government must ) create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty - one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property. And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age. Note that £ 10 and £ 15 would be worth about £ 800 and £ 1,200 ( $1,200 and $2,000 ) when adjusted for inflation ( 2011 British Pounds Sterling ). Lamb argues that Paine 's analysis of property rights marks a distinct contribution to political theory. His theory of property defends a libertarian concern with private ownership that shows an egalitarian commitment. Paine 's new justification of property sets him apart from previous theorists such as Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, and John Locke. It demonstrates Paine 's commitment to foundational liberal values of individual freedom and moral equality. Religious views Before his arrest and imprisonment in France, knowing that he would probably be arrested and executed, Paine, following in the tradition of early eighteenth - century British deism, wrote the first part of The Age of Reason, an assault on organized `` revealed '' religion combining a compilation of the many inconsistencies he found in the Bible. About his own religious beliefs, Paine wrote in The Age of Reason : I believe in one God, and no more ; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind ; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. Though there is no evidence he himself was a Freemason, upon his return to America from France, Paine also penned `` An Essay on the Origin of Free - Masonry '' ( 1803 -- 1805 ), about Freemasonry being derived from the religion of the ancient Druids. In the essay, he stated that `` The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally paid to the sun. '' Marguerite de Bonneville published the essay in 1810, after Paine 's death, but she chose to omit certain passages from it that were critical of Christianity, most of which were restored in an 1818 printing. While Paine never described himself as a deist, he did write the following : The opinions I have advanced... are the effect of the most clear and long - established conviction that the Bible and the Testament are impositions upon the world, that the fall of man, the account of Jesus Christ being the Son of God, and of his dying to appease the wrath of God, and of salvation, by that strange means, are all fabulous inventions, dishonorable to the wisdom and power of the Almighty ; that the only true religion is Deism, by which I then meant, and mean now, the belief of one God, and an imitation of his moral character, or the practice of what are called moral virtues -- and that it was upon this only ( so far as religion is concerned ) that I rested all my hopes of happiness hereafter. So say I now -- and so help me God. Legacy In 1969, a Prominent Americans series stamp honoring Paine was issued Paine 's writing greatly influenced his contemporaries and, especially, the American revolutionaries. His books provoked an upsurge in Deism in America, but in the long term inspired philosophic and working - class radicals in the UK and US. Liberals, libertarians, Left - libertarians, feminists, democratic socialists, social democrats, anarchists, free thinkers, and progressives often claim him as an intellectual ancestor. Paine 's critique of institutionalized religion and advocacy of rational thinking influenced many British free thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as William Cobbett, George Holyoake, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Hitchens and Bertrand Russell. The quote `` Lead, follow, or get out of the way '' is widely but incorrectly attributed to Paine. This can be found nowhere in his published works. Lincoln When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Paine 's deism ; a political associate, Samuel Hill, burned it to save Lincoln 's political career. Historian Roy Basler, the editor of Lincoln 's papers, said Paine had a strong influence on Lincoln 's style : No other writer of the eighteenth century, with the exception of Jefferson, parallels more closely the temper or gist of Lincoln 's later thought. In style, Paine above all others affords the variety of eloquence which, chastened and adapted to Lincoln 's own mood, is revealed in Lincoln 's formal writings. Edison The inventor Thomas Edison said : I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic... It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine 's works in my boyhood... it was, indeed, a revelation to me to read that great thinker 's views on political and theological subjects. Paine educated me, then, about many matters of which I had never before thought. I remember, very vividly, the flash of enlightenment that shone from Paine 's writings, and I recall thinking, at that time, ' What a pity these works are not today the schoolbooks for all children ! ' My interest in Paine was not satisfied by my first reading of his works. I went back to them time and again, just as I have done since my boyhood days. South America In 1811, Venezuelan translator Manuel Garcia de Sena published a book in Philadelphia which consisted mostly of Spanish translations of several of Paine 's most important works. The book also included translations of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, and the constitutions of five U.S. states. It subsequently circulated widely in South America, and through it, Uruguayan national hero José Gervasio Artigas became familiar with and embraced Paine 's ideas. In turn, many of Artigas 's writings drew directly from Paine 's, including the Instructions of 1813, which Uruguayans consider to be one of their country 's most important constitutional documents ; it was one of the earliest writings to articulate a principled basis for an identity independent of Buenos Aires. Memorials The first and longest - standing memorial to Thomas Paine is the carved and inscribed 12 foot marble column in New Rochelle, New York organized and funded by publisher, educator and reformer Gilbert Vale ( 1791 -- 1866 ) and raised in 1839 by the American sculptor and architect John Frazee -- the Thomas Paine Monument ( see image below ). New Rochelle is also the original site of Thomas Paine 's Cottage, which, along with a 320 - acre ( 130 ha ) farm, were presented to Paine in 1784 by act of the New York State Legislature for his services in the American Revolution. The same site is the home of the Thomas Paine Memorial Museum. Thomas A. Edison helped to turn the first shovel of earth for the museum which serves as a museum to display both Paine relics as well as others of local historical interest. A large collection of books, pamphlets, and pictures is contained in the Paine library, including many first editions of Paine 's works, as well as several original manuscripts. These holdings, the subject of a sell - off controversy, were temporarily relocated to the New - York Historical Society and have since been more permanently archived in the Iona College library nearby. Paine was originally buried near the current location of his house and monument upon his death in 1809. The site is marked by a small headstone and burial plaque even though his remains were removed years later. In the twentieth century, Joseph Lewis, longtime president of the Freethinkers of America and an ardent Paine admirer, was instrumental in having larger - than - life - sized statues of Paine erected in each of the three countries with which the revolutionary writer was associated. The first, created by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, was erected in Paris just before World War II began ( but not formally dedicated until 1948 ). It depicts Paine standing before the French National Convention to plead for the life of King Louis XVI. The second, sculpted in 1950 by Georg J. Lober, was erected near Paine 's one time home in Morristown, New Jersey. It shows a seated Paine using a drum - head as a makeshift table. The third, sculpted by Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, was erected in 1964 in Paine 's birthplace, Thetford, England. With quill pen in his right hand and an inverted copy of The Rights of Man in his left, it occupies a prominent spot on King Street. Thomas Paine was ranked # 34 in the 100 Greatest Britons 2002 extensive Nationwide poll conducted by the BBC. A bronze plaque attached to the wall of Thetford 's Tom Paine hotel gives details of Paine 's life. It was placed there in 1943 by voluntary contributions from U.S. airmen from a nearby bomber base. Texas folklorist and freethinker J. Frank Dobie, then teaching at Cambridge University, participated in the dedication ceremonies. Bronx Community College includes Paine in its Hall of Fame of Great Americans, and there are statues of Paine in Morristown and Bordentown, New Jersey, and in the Parc Montsouris, in Paris. In Paris, there is a plaque in the street where he lived from 1797 to 1802, that says : `` Thomas PAINE / 1737 -- 1809 / Englishman by birth / American by adoption / French by decree. '' Yearly, between July 4 and 14, the Lewes Town Council in the United Kingdom celebrates the life and work of Thomas Paine. In the early 1990s, largely through the efforts of citizen activist David Henley of Virginia, legislation ( S. Con. Res 110, and H.R. 1628 ) was introduced in the 102nd Congress by ideological opposites Sen. Steve Symms ( R - ID ) and Rep. Nita Lowey ( D - NY ). With over 100 formal letters of endorsement by United States and foreign historians, philosophers and organizations, including the Thomas Paine National Historical Society, the legislation garnered 78 original co-sponsors in the Senate and 230 original co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, and was consequently passed by both houses ' unanimous consent. In October 1992 the legislation was signed into law ( PL102 - 407 & PL102 - 459 ) by President George H.W. Bush authorizing the construction, using private funds, of a memorial to Thomas Paine in `` Area 1 '' of the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. As of January 2011, the memorial has not yet been built. The University of East Anglia 's Norwich Business School is housed in the Thomas Paine Study Centre on its Norwich campus, in Paine 's home county of Norfolk. The Cookes House is reputed to have been his home during the Second Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania. John Frazee 's Thomas Paine Monument in New Rochelle Statue in Bordentown, New Jersey Plaque honoring Paine at 10 rue de l'Odéon, Paris Statue in Thetford, Norfolk, England, Paine 's birthplace Plaque on Thomas Paine Hotel, Thetford Commemorative plaque on the site of the former residence of Paine in Greenwich Village, New York City In popular culture The 1982 French - Italian film That Night in Varennes is about a fictional meeting of Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt ( played by Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni ), Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne, Countess Sophie de la Borde, and Thomas Paine ( played by American actor Harvey Keitel ) as they ride in a carriage a few hours behind the carriage carrying the King and Queen of France, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, on their attempt to escape from revolutionary France in 1791. Jack Shepherd 's stage play In Lambeth dramatized a visit by Thomas Paine to the Lambeth home of William and Catherine Blake in 1789. In 1995, English folk singer Graham Moore, from Dorset, wrote `` Tom Paine 's Bones '' which he recorded on his album of the same name. In 2001 the Scottish musician Dick Gaughan included the song on his album Outlaws and Dreamers. In 2005 the writer Trevor Griffiths published These are the Times : A Life of Thomas Paine, originally written as a screenplay for Richard Attenborough Productions. Although the film was not made, the play was broadcast, as a two - part drama, on BBC Radio 4 in 2008 with a repeat in 2012. In 2009 Griffiths adapted the screenplay for a production entitled A New World at Shakespeare 's Globe theatre on London 's South Bank. In 2009 Paine 's life was dramatized in the play Thomas Paine Citizen of the World, produced for the `` Tom Paine 200 Celebrations '' festival in Thetford, the town of his birth. Paine 's role in the foundation of the United States is depicted in a pseudo-biographical fashion in the educational animated series Liberty 's Kids produced by DIC Entertainment. Paine is a character in the Bob Dylan song `` As I Went Out One Morning, '' featured on Dylan 's 1968 album, John Wesley Harding. Paine is also mentioned in the song `` Renegades of Funk '' by Afrika Bambaataa in which he is referred to as `` Tom Paine '' among other notable `` renegades '' Chief Sitting Bull, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The song was later covered by rap metal band Rage Against the Machine, with Paine 's name still included. Paine is referred to on several occasions in Philip Roth 's 1998 novel I Married a Communist. Paine is a character in the story `` Thermidor '' in The Sandman : Fables & Reflections, where he is shown having a colloquy with Louis Antoine de Saint - Just. Paine is referred to in the song `` Think About It '' by Semi Hendrix, a collaboration album by Ras Kass and Jack Splash. See also Asset - based egalitarianism British philosophy Contributions to liberal theory Liberty List of American philosophers List of British philosophers List of civil rights leaders Society of the Friends of Truth Notes ^ Jump up to : Conway, Moncure D. ( 1908 ). The Life of Thomas Paine. Volume 1. Cobbett, William, Illustrator. G.P. Putnam 's Sons. p. 3. Retrieved October 2, 2013. -- In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine 's birth date is given as January 29, 1736 -- 37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old - style year from the new - style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1. Paine 's birth date, therefore, would have been before New Year, 1737. In the new style, his birth date advances by eleven days and his year increases by one to February 9, 1737. 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Thomas Paine And The Promise of America. Hill & Wang. p. 43. ISBN 0 - 8090 - 9344 - 8. Jump up ^ The Sharpened Quill, The New Yorker. Accessed November 6, 2010. Jump up ^ Conway, Moncure D. ( 1892 ). The Life of Thomas Paine. Vol. 2, pp. 417 -- 18. Jump up ^ Crosby, Alan ( 1986 ). A History of Thetford ( 1st ed. ). Chichester, Sussex : Phillimore & Co. pp. 44 -- 84. ISBN 0 - 85033 - 604 - X. ( Also see discussion page ) Jump up ^ `` National Archives ''. UK National Archives. Acknowledgement dated Mar 2, 1769, document NU / 1 / 3 / 3 Jump up ^ School History Archived December 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Thetford Grammar School, Accessed January 3, 2008, Jump up ^ `` Word List : Definitions of Nautical Terms and Ship Parts ''. Phrontistery.info. Retrieved May 5, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Did Thomas Paine Make Corsets For A Living ? ''. Thomas Paine National Historical Association. Retrieved May 4, 2017. 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Jump up ^ Sophia Rosenfeld, `` Tom Paine 's Common Sense and Ours. '' William and Mary Quarterly ( 2008 ), 65 # 4, pp. 633 -- 68 in JSTOR Jump up ^ Robert Middlekauff ( 2005 ), The Glorious Cause : The American Revolution, 1763 -- 1789, Revised and Expanded Edition, Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y., ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 531588 - 2, pp. 30 -- 53. Jump up ^ Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause, pp. 4 -- 5, 324 -- 26. Jump up ^ Cf. Clifton E. Olmstead ( 1960 ), History of Religion in the United States, Prentice - Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., p. 178. Jump up ^ Martin Roth, `` Tom Paine and American Loneliness. '' Early American Literature, September 1987, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 175 -- 82. Jump up ^ `` Thomas Paine. The American Crisis. Philadelphia, Styner and Cist, 1776 -- 77. ''. Indiana University. Retrieved November 15, 2007. Jump up ^ Nelson, Craig ( 2007 ). Thomas Paine : Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations. Penguin. pp. 174 -- 75. 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Chrimes, ed., Thomas Telford, 2002 ( ISBN 0 - 7277 - 2939 - X, ISBN 978 - 0727729392 ) Jump up ^ See Thomas Paine Archived September 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine., Independence Hall Association. Accessed online November 4, 2006. ^ Jump up to : `` Mark Philp, ' Paine, Thomas ( 1737 -- 1809 ) ', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004 ; online edn, May 2008, accessed July 26, 2008 ''. Jump up ^ O'Neill, Brendan ( June 8, 2009 ). `` Who was Thomas Paine ? ''. BBC. Retrieved June 8, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Papers of James Monroe... from the original manuscripts in the Library of Congress ''. Jump up ^ Craig Nelson. Thomas Paine. p. 299. ISBN 0 - 670 - 03788 - 5. Jump up ^ Craig Nelson. Thomas Paine. p. 291. ISBN 0 - 670 - 03788 - 5. Jump up ^ Paine, Thomas. `` Letter to George Washington, July 30, 1796 : `` On Paine 's Service to America '' ``. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. Retrieved November 4, 2006. Jump up ^ Craig Nelson. 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New York Evening Post. June 10, 1809. Retrieved November 22, 2013. Jump up ^ Paine, Thomas ( 2008 ). Works of Thomas Paine. MobileReference. Retrieved November 22, 2013. Jump up ^ Eric Foner ( 2005 ). Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. Oxford University Press, 2nd edition. pp. xxxii, 16. ISBN 9780195174861. Jump up ^ Mark Jendrysik, `` Tom Paine : Utopian ? '' Utopian Studies ( 2007 ) 18 # 2 pp. 139 -- 57. Jump up ^ Gregory Claeys, ed. ( 2010 ). The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge University Press. pp. 11 -- 12. ISBN 9781139828420. CS1 maint : Extra text : authors list ( link ) Jump up ^ Claeys p. 20. Jump up ^ Weatherford, Jack `` Indian Givers How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. '' 1988, p. 125. Jump up ^ Rodriguez, Junius P. ( 2007 ). Slavery in the United States : A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia. ABC - CLIO. p. 279. Jump up ^ Nichols, John ( January 20, 2009 ). `` Obama 's Vindication of Thomas Paine ''. The Nation. Jump up ^ `` Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to Present ''. Measuringworth.com. February 15, 1971. Retrieved December 26, 2011. Jump up ^ Lamb, Robert. `` Liberty, Equality, and the Boundaries of Ownership : Thomas Paine 's Theory of Property Rights. '' Review of Politics ( 2010 ), 72 # 3 pp. 483 -- 511. Jump up ^ Thomas Paine ; et al. ( 1824 ). The Theological Works of Thomas Paine. R. Carlile. p. 31. Jump up ^ Shai Afsai ( Fall 2010 ). `` Thomas Paine 's Masonic Essay and the Question of His Membership in the Fraternity '' ( PDF ). Philalethes 63 ( 4 ) : 138 -- 44. Retrieved March 5, 2011. As he was certainly not a Master Mason when he wrote the essay -- and as there is no evidence he joined the fraternity after then -- one may conclude, as have Mackey, Newton, and others, that Paine was not a Freemason. Still, though the ' pantheon of Masons ' may not hold Thomas Paine, this influential and controversial man remains connected to Freemasonry, if only due to the close friendships he had with some in the fraternity, and to his having written an intriguing essay on its origins. Jump up ^ Shai Afsai, `` Thomas Paine 's Masonic Essay and the Question of His Membership in the Fraternity. '' Philalethes 63 : 4 ( Fall 2010 ), 140 -- 141. ^ Jump up to : Afsai, Shai ( 2012 ). `` Thomas Paine, Freemason or Deist ? ''. Early America Review ( Winter / Spring ). Jump up ^ Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln : a life ( 2008 ), vol. 2, p. 83. Jump up ^ Roy P. Basler ( ed. ), Abraham Lincoln : His Speeches and Writings ( 1946 ), p. 6. Jump up ^ Thomas Edison, Introduction to The Life and Works of Thomas Paine, New York : Citadel Press, 1945, Vol. I, pp. vii -- ix. 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Retrieved May 7, 2014. Jump up ^ http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/discovery-space/previous-productions/new-world Jump up ^ `` Thomas Paine -- `` Citizen Of The World '' ``. Keystage-company.co.uk. Retrieved May 7, 2014. Jump up ^ Tom Paine Legacy Archived January 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., Programme for bicentenary celebrations. Bibliography Aldridge, A. Owen ( 1959 ). Man of Reason : The Life of Thomas Paine. Lippincott... Regarded by British authorities as the standard biography. Aldridge, A. Owen ( 1984 ). Thomas Paine 's American Ideology. University of Delaware Press. Ayer, A.J. ( 1988 ). Thomas Paine. University of Chicago Press. Bailyn, Bernard ( 1990 ). Bailyn, ed. Common Sense. Faces of Revolution : Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. Alfred A. Knopf. Bernstein, R.B. ( 1994 ). `` Review Essay : Rediscovering Thomas Paine ''. New York Law School Law Review... Valuable blend of historiographical essay and biographical / analytical treatment. Butler, Marilyn ( 1984 ). Burke Paine and Godwin and the Revolution Controversy. Claeys, Gregory ( 1989 ). Thomas Paine, Social and Political Thought. London : Unwin Hyman... Excellent analysis of Paine 's thought. Conway, Moncure Daniel ( 1892 ). `` The Life of Thomas Paine ''. G.P. Putnam 's Sons... Long hailed as the definitive biography, and still valuable. Ferguson, Robert A. ( July 2000 ). `` The Commonalities of Common Sense ''. William and Mary Quarterly. 57 # 3. JSTOR 2674263. Foner, Eric ( 1976 ). Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. Oxford University Press... The standard monograph treating Paine 's thought and work with regard to America. Foner, Eric ( 2000 ). Thomas Paine. American National Biography Online. Griffiths, Trevor ( 2005 ). These Are the Times : A Life of Thomas Paine. Spokesman Books. Hawke, David Freeman ( 1974 ). Paine. Philadelphia. Regarded by many American authorities as the standard biography. Hitchens, Christopher ( 2007 ). Thomas Paine 's `` Rights of Man '' : A Biography. London : Atlantic Books. ISBN 978 - 1843546283. Kates, Gary ( 1989 ). `` From Liberalism to Radicalism : Tom Paine 's Rights of Man ''. Journal of the History of Ideas. Kaye, Harvey J. ( 2005 ). Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. Hill and Wang. Keane, John ( 1995 ). Tom Paine : A Political Life. London : Bloomsbury... One of the most valuable recent studies. Lamb, Robert ( 2010 ). `` Liberty, Equality, and the Boundaries of Ownership : Thomas Paine 's Theory of Property Rights ''. Review of Politics. 72 ( 3 ). Larkin, Edward ( 2005 ). Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution. Cambridge University Press. Lessay, Jean ( 1987 ). L'américain de la Convention, Thomas Paine : Professeur de révolutions ( The National Convention 's American, Thomas Paine, professor of revolution ) ( in French ). Paris : Éditions Perrin. p. 241. Levin, Yuval ( 2013 ). The Great Debate : Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. Basic Books. ISBN 978 - 0465062980... Their debate over the French Revolution. Lewis, Joseph L. ( 1947 ). Thomas Paine : The Author of the Declaration of Independence. New York : Freethought Press Association. Nelson, Craig ( 2006 ). Thomas Paine : Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations. Viking. ISBN 0 - 670 - 03788 - 5. Phillips, Mark ( May 2008 ). `` Paine, Thomas ( 1737 -- 1809 ) ''. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( online ed. ). Oxford University Press. doi : 10.1093 / ref : odnb / 21133. ( Subscription or UK public library membership required. ) Powell, David ( 1985 ). Tom Paine, The Greatest Exile. Hutchinson. Russell, Bertrand ( 1934 ). `` The Fate of Thomas Paine ''. Solinger, Jason D. ( November 2010 ). `` Thomas Paine 's Continental Mind ''. Early American Literature. 45 ( 3 ). Vincent, Bernard ( 2005 ). The Transatlantic Republican : Thomas Paine and the age of revolutions. Wilensky, Mark ( 2008 ). The Elementary Common Sense of Thomas Paine. An Interactive Adaptation for All Ages. Casemate. ISBN 978 - 1 - 932714 - 36 - 4. Washburne, E.B. ( May 1880 ). `` Thomas Paine and the French Revolution ''. Scribner 's Monthly. XX. Fiction Fast, Howard ( 1946 ). Citizen Tom Paine. ( historical novel, though sometimes mistaken as biography ). Primary sources Paine, Thomas ( 1896 ). Conway, Moncure Daniel, ed. The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 4. New York : G.P. Putnam 's sons. p. 521., E'book Foot, Michael ; Kramnick, Isaac ( 1987 ). The Thomas Paine Reader. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0 - 14 - 044496 - 3. Paine, Thomas ( 1993 ). Foner, Eric, ed. Writings. Philadelphia : Library of America... Authoritative and scholarly edition containing Common Sense, the essays comprising the American Crisis series, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, Agrarian Justice, and selected briefer writings, with authoritative texts and careful annotation. Paine, Thomas ( 1944 ). Foner, Philip S., ed. The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine. Citadel Press. We badly need a complete edition of Paine 's writings on the model of Eric Foner 's edition for the Library of America, but until that goal is achieved, Philip Foner 's two - volume edition is a serviceable substitute. Volume I contains the major works, and volume II contains shorter writings, both published essays and a selection of letters, but confusingly organized ; in addition, Foner 's attributions of writings to Paine have come in for some criticism in that Foner may have included writings that Paine edited but did not write and omitted some writings that later scholars have attributed to Paine. 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Question: common sense which was written by thomas paine was an important work because it
Answer: crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain