Thomas Paine

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He spoke of the American Revolutionary era as "the times that try men's souls" Thomas Paine DD $2,000 DJ NAME THAT AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY 2008-02-18 #5401
In "The American Crisis No. 2", he wrote, "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men" Thomas Paine DD $2,200 J 18th CENTURY AMERICAN QUOTES 2006-01-10 #4912
In the 1770s, this pamphleteer wrote "African Slavery in America", an article condemning slavery Thomas Paine $800 DJ 18th CENTURY AMERICANS 2002-11-06 #4183
In "The American Crisis", he wrote, "We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free" Thomas Paine $600 J REVOLUTIONARY WORDS 2002-03-12 #4042
In "The American Crisis", he wrote, "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men" Thomas Paine DD $2,000 DJ REVOLUTIONARY QUOTES 1998-06-24 #3198
He'd only been in America for 2 years when he published his "Common Sense" pamphlet in 1776 Thomas Paine $1,000 DJ 18th CENTURY LITERATURE 1996-11-12 #2807
Poverty forced this future pamphleteer to drop out of school at age 13 & become a corset maker Thomas Paine $200 DJ HISTORIC THOMASES 1995-09-28 #2544
In his last "Crisis" essay of 1783, he wrote, "The times that tried men's souls are over" Thomas Paine $500 J HISTORIC QUOTES 1993-02-26 #1960
In "The Rights of Man" he wrote, "My country is the world and my religion is to do good" Thomas Paine $800 DJ HISTORIC QUOTES 1991-11-08 #1655
He had the "Common Sense" to say, "These are the times that try men's souls" Thomas Paine $400 DJ REVOLUTIONARY WORDS 1991-02-22 #1500
In 1776 he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" Thomas Paine $400 DJ HISTORY 1989-06-13 #1117
Having helped incite the revolution by writing "Common Sense", he later went back to England Thomas Paine $400 DJ AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1986-10-14 #482
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