![]() ![]() See also Common Sense Revolution, American: Political History. Later, his "Crisis" pamphlets would be an inspiration to many throughout the long, difficult years of the war. Paine became a hero in the colonies and was, at least for a time, considered one of America's foremost revolutionary thinkers. ![]() ![]() George Washington himself commended the power of its reasoning. Penned anonymously by the English-born Thomas Paine, who had immigrated to America at the urging of Benjamin Franklin, the tract was an astonishing sensation, selling some 120,000 copies during its first three months, and nearly a half-million throughout the years of the Revolution. All that had been needed, it seems, was a voice to finally forcefully articulate the patriot's case against the mother country and to insist upon the impossibility of reconciliation with the Crown. With the publication of Common Sense early in the winter of 1776 came also the inevitability of war between Great Britain and her colonies in North America. EXCERPT FROM "COMMON SENSE" (1776, by Thomas Paine) ![]()
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