How To Use Tom paine In A Sentence
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In 1797, Tom Paine argued that all new democratic republics, including France and the United States, should guarantee every 21-year old citizen a wealth stake.
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That God reposed alone through all the past eternities, but roused some day and sent forth a shout, or six successive shouts, and spoke things out of nothing into "noumenal" existence, were absurd enough, to use Mr. James's nervous English, "to nourish a standing army of Tom Paines into annual fatness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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Whether this is the legacy of some deep, culturally engrained identification with the underdog–scrappy Tom Paine and Paul Revere against that bully King George, perhaps–or merely cynical manipulation, even the demonstrably unoppressed and unpersecuted find it congenial to position themselves as victims.
Battle Weary
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In ‘The Rights of Man’ Tom Paine slates the concept of hereditary succession as being ‘as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man’.
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