Advocating Quote by Mike Crapo

“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British, vague enough…

— Howard Zinn

“Their very independence from Great Britain resulted, as Thomas Paine had predicted it would in 1776, from the implausibility that “a Continent [could] be…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Paine’s pamphlet appealed to a wide range of colonial opinion angered by England. But it caused some tremors in aristocrats like John Adams, who…

— Howard Zinn

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

— Treat Williams

“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I…

— Thomas Edison

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. THOMAS PAINE, THE AMERICAN CRISIS, 1776”

— Melanie Dobson

“By 1778, British peace commissioners were offering to rectify all the American grievances of 1776, ignoring only the demand for independence.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The…

— Howard Zinn

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

— Bertrand Russell

Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their freedoms. Had…

— Stan Van Gundy

“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave,…

— Henry Noel Brailsford

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski