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Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary
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Thomas Paine (1736 - 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain