In the vein of pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, they were handed out around London.

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You can keep a constitution in your pocket, as Thomas Paine once pointed out.

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It was the writings of Thomas Paine that General Washington ordered his men to read before crossing the Delaware.

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Bogle is also erudite, sprinkling the text with references to the likes of Mark Twain, Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton.

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As Thomas Paine said, who remembers Homer's father or Homer's son?

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Thomas Paine - the American and French revolutionary hero and allegedly the first person to write the words "the United States of America", died a penniless drunk in Manhattan.

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Well, yes, but so was Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

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It deserves a place in the firmament of history's most outstanding calls to arms, a number of which - from Thomas Paine and George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt to John F.

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He got the support of a writer named Thomas Paine to take the message to the streets, sharing the vision with ten thousand people who volunteered to form short-term task forces that would join the campaign and then disband.

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