Thomas Paine: Defender of the Rights of Man
Challenging Authority: How Thomas Paine Forged a Path to Individual Liberty
My motive and object in all my political works . . . have been to rescue man from tyranny and false systems and false principles of government, and enable him to be free, and establish government for himself. —Thomas Paine1
Benjamin Franklin told Thomas Paine that he was “more responsible than any other living person on this continent for the creation of …
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