[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he… — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
“Tom Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas… — Burl Ives Copy Share Image
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ, it's here. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image