Thomas Paine Quotes About Courage

Common Sense (1776), “Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs.” The represented wording is verified in Project Gutenberg #147 and the validated 1776 Wikisource transcription; Paine enlarges the stakes from a city or province to a continent and to posterity.

Common Sense (1776), Appendix, validated Wikisource scan leaf 48 / printed page 40. Paine argues that independence creates an opportunity to form a new constitution and writes that Americans have it in their power to begin the world over again.

Common Sense (1776), Introduction. The represented wording is verified in Project Gutenberg #147 and the validated scan-backed Wikisource transcription; Paine frames the American dispute as involving principles of natural rights and human concern beyond one locality.

Common Sense (1776), Introduction. The represented opening sentence is verified in Project Gutenberg #147 and the validated scan-backed Wikisource transcription; Paine argues that familiarity can make a wrong practice appear right before public argument unsettles the custom.

Rights of Man; represented in the public-domain Conway edition and kept in the work’s polemical political context.

Opening of The American Crisis No. I; Paine addresses perseverance during a difficult stage of the American Revolution.