Thomas Paine
writer · Britain · United States · France · 1737–1809
A corset maker who left England for America at thirty-seven. With pamphlets written in plain words he moved the colonists towards independence.
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December 1776 · Read to the soldiers in the winter of defeat and retreat in the War of Independence
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.
The American Crisis, no. 1
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