“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And I can still… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
