ThomasPaineCommonSENSE

﻿ Thomas Paine Common Sense  ﻿ Thomas Paine Common Sense is a pamphlet which challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. Thomas Paine Common Sense used plain and well understandable language so that common people are able to read and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. Common Sense convinced many colonists that independence and a Revolutionary War were justified. All of these events set the stage for the Declaration of Independence that would be declared in July 1776, only a few months later. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as, "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."

Thomas Paine began working on his book in the late 1775 firstly naming it Plain Truth. The pamphlet was created with the help of Benjamin Rush and contained forty-eight pages which all were the stereotypical idias of Thomas Paine. Same month of publishing 120,000 copies of the pamphlet were created and 500, 000 over the first year. Paine donated his revenue from Common Sense to George Washington's Continental Army, saying: > As my wish was to serve an oppressed people, and assist in a just and good cause, I conceived that the honor of it would be promoted by my declining to make even the usual profits of an author. —Thomas Paine

Other Quotes By Thomas Paine:
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 * Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
 * My own mind is my own church.
 * It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
 * The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
 * Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
 * The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
 * A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

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