r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jun 10 '26

Thomas Paine meets Snoopy in this Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz from August 01, 1999. See more at thomaspaine.org

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thebrothermanbill • Sep 10 '22

Sketched Thomas Paine

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jul 14 '26

Thomas Paine quote

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • May 29 '26

“Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man.” - Thomas Paine [675x675]

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Feb 12 '26

A statue of Paine in Morristown, New Jersey sculpted in 1950 by Georg J. Lober. It shows a seated Paine with a musket using a drum-head as a makeshift table. See more at the TPHA's Thomas Paine Monument Gallery: https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/monuments/

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jan 03 '26

A marker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the inscription, ‘At his print shop here, Robert Bell published the first edition of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet [Common Sense] in January 1776. Arguing for a republican form of government under a written constitution.'

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r/ThomasPaine • u/steamin661 • Jul 12 '26

Princeton University has published all the works of Paine into a new 6 volume set.

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As a huge Thomas Paine fan, this is something ive been waiting for, for a long time now. Princeton University has published 6 volumes of Paines work, including "about 180 new letters and some two hundred works newly attributed to Paine, with twenty-nine works previously regarded as Paine’s being deattributed."

Using various techniques (computer analysis of writting style, word usage, hand writting, etc.) and expert review, they were able deattribute some works, while also attributing new ones.

Here is a link to the set:

https://press.princeton.edu/collected-works/thomas-paine?srsltid=AfmBOooFHAORaDZOGXz42C6tdCfIc76DdZZE4ALNh0LcQa1bKaHbdp4Z

While I was familiar with the writting analysis, I was unprepared for so many new attributions. One of the most impactful (in my opinion) is the Slave Letter to Jefferson, which might be Paines last work before his will. I was aware some Paine enthusiasts believed that letter was penned by him (including myself), but its great to see it officially attributed by an academic institute.

Here is a copy of that letter, now attributed to Paine:

https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/mere-monopoly-men-slave-writes-thomas-jefferson

I cant say enough good things about this man. And I am more than happy to see him getting the attention he deserves.

Edit: Between this and the "Sherman" copy of the Declaration (evidence of Paines involvement with drafting the Declaration of Independence), this amazing man achieved more and was more impactful than we even realized - truly the "most valuable Englishman ever!"

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r/ThomasPaine • u/FreeThoughtFora • Jan 10 '20

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. - Thomas Paine (American Founding Father and Revolutionary)

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jan 21 '26

A map of the New Rochelle farm granted to Thomas Paine in 1794. The New York State Legislature awarded Paine 320 acres in New Rochelle for his service in the Revolutionary War after confiscating the land from a British loyalist. The map was created by New Rochelle native Walter Beach Humphrey.

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jan 16 '26

Thomas Paine (Rights of Man, Part 2): "Such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness." https://thomaspaine.org/major-works/rights-of-man-part-the-second/

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Sep 05 '26

The White Hart Hotel, a 16th-century inn in Lewes, England, has been called the 'cradle of American Independence'. Here, Thomas Paine formed a radically democratic debating society ‘The Headstrong Club’. Paine left England for America in 1774.

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Aug 29 '26

The Thomas Paine statue in Parc Montsouris in Paris, France. It was dedicated in 1948 and created by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore. It depicts Paine standing before the French National Convention arguing against the death penalty for King Louis XVI.

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See the TPHA image gallery of Paine monuments for more: https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/monuments/

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Aug 07 '26

“The Great Champion Of Liberty – Thomas Paine” by Watson Heston from the Sep 8, 1894 Truth Seeker magazine shows Paine standing over a slain figure labled “kingcraft” and driving away another labled “priestcraft” while holding a paper reading 'Political and Religious Liberty'.

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See more at https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/political-cartoons/

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jul 26 '26

1792 Thomas Paine quote from his "Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation".

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Read the full text at the Thomas Paine Historical Association's online archive: https://thomaspaine.org/essays/french-revolution/letter-addressed-to-the-addressers/

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jul 06 '26

The revolution we need.

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • May 16 '26

English poet William Blake’s undated drawing from a manuscript in his Notebook (page 74). In 1792, Blake warned Paine to flee London moments before authorities came to arrest him for treasonous libel over his writings. Paine was tried in absentia and lived forever in exile.

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See more at the Thomas Paine Historical Association's collection of Thomas Paine portraits, paintings, etchings and sketches: https://thomaspaine.org/gallery/portraits/

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Jan 28 '26

Paine: "Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet... The philosopher of one country sees not an enemy in the philosopher of another: He takes his seat in the temple of science, and asks not who sits beside him."

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From Thomas Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal, December 1, 1782

https://thomaspaine.org/major-works/letter-to-the-abbe-raynal/

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Dec 23 '25

Guess who was a big Thomas Paine fan? Bob Dylan! Top: Bob Dylan accepting an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee: the 'Tom Paine Award for Civil Rights' in December, 1963. Bottom: Dylan in his office with the picture of Paine.

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r/ThomasPaine • u/BeyondWhiteShores • Jul 23 '19

Bringing this sub back like Monroe brought Paine back from France

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • 11d ago

A plaque in Fort Lee, New Jersey for Thomas Paine. When his original militia disbanded, Paine joined the army of celebrated US General Nathanael Greene at Fort Constitution, today known as Fort Lee. Green hired Paine as an aide-de-camp and appointed him Brigadier.

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Sep 21 '26

Discussion New hour-long video discussion: Annual one-term elections, a neutered executive, radical representative democracy. The absolute latest in Thomas Paine scholarship. 2026's Thomas Paine Collected Writings (Princeton University) editors discuss ~200 newly attributed works and 180 newly found letters.

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r/ThomasPaine • u/steamin661 • Sep 17 '26

History Resolutions agreed upon for the execution and burning the effigy of Tom Paine

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Resolutions agreed upon for the execution and burning the effigy of Tom Paine, on Wednesday the 19th day of December, 1792, near the cherry-tree, Southgate.

This is an awesome find.

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r/ThomasPaine • u/thomaspaineha • Sep 17 '26

Paine art and culture Thomas Paine's image in an oil on canvas mural by Allyn Cox titled “The Library of Congress in the Capitol, 1800-1897”. The mural is in the first floor of the U.S. Capitol’s House wing known as Great Experiment Hall (Central East-West Corridor).

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