He wrote the Rights of Man (1791), in part a defence of the French Revolution against its critics. Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain." His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense (1776), the all-time best-selling American book that advocated colonial America's independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis (1776–83), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. He has been called "a corset maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".īorn in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution.
His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights.
As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
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Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary.
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