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4 days ago · Thomas Paine — ‘Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my sou...
3 days ago · The American Crisis papers (December 1776–December 1783) spurred Americans to fight on through the blackest years of the war. Based upon Paine’s simple deistic beliefs, they showed the conflict as a stirring melodrama with the angelic colonists against the forces of evil. Such white and black picturings were highly effective ...
3 days ago · The new crisis. As in 1776 when Paine sat down to write on his drumhead, patriotic lovers of democracy—of all parties—are in crisis. Their confidence in their standard-bearer has been severely ...
3 days ago · One of early America's most important and influential patriots wielded not a sword or a gun but a pen. Thomas Paine, famous for his writings Common Sense and The Crisis, did more to inspire the troops and the folks at home by writing than he ever did by wielding a gun or marching in formation.
2 days ago · 3. THOMAS PAINE: "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 by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
3 days ago · Thomas Paine (1737–1809) played a vital role in mobilizing American support for their own independence, and he leapt to support the French revolutionaries when Edmund Burke attacked. Elected deputy to the French National Convention in 1793, Paine nearly lost his head as an associate of the Girondins during the Terror.
2 days ago · It was this situation that inspired the pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s famous words about the crisis: “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 his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
