The Daily Thomas Paine: A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age

A year's worth of quotations from the eighteenth-century founding father for a twenty-first–century America that could use some common sense.

Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis, Paine codified both colonial outrage and the intellectual justification for independence, arguing consistently and convincingly f...