Thomas Paine

A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

What is one reason Thomas Paine believed that the youth of the colonies was an advantage against Britain?

He means those that stand for an ideal when it's 'easy' to stand for an ideal. For example: It's easy to brag to your friends that you are a fan of a certain musical group when they are on top of the charts. But what about when their album sales plummet and the lead singer is convicted of homosexual pedophilic beastiality and methamphetamine abuse. Well, it's kinda hard to wear their tour shirt out in public. Right? Then that would make you a "sunshine fan". You're touting their praises when everything is good but when the circumstances get difficult--- well, you get the idea.

Thomas Paine included the phrase in his pamphlet, the American Crisis. The quote is:

"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

it is related because I love you...

The Thomas Paine Awards were instituted to recognize and reward individuals who through their efforts have helped to encourage and inspire freedom, justice and reasoned thinking, principles that Thomas Paine struggled to promote throughout his life and works.

The Thomas O. Paine Award for the Advancement of Human Exploration of Mars.

Someone who is not reliable during hard times

I think Paine was trying to tell us that we should know that England was treating us unfairly. Everything in the pamphlet was a reminder of what should have been "Common Sense".

Writer and patriot Thomas Paine was living in Philadelphia when his newspaper believed that the 13 American colonies should be independent from the British Empire. In later years he lived in France.

Thomas Paine wrote the Declaration of Independence to bring peace to the colonist.

There were many reasons........he thought it was not right .... how the king taxed them and pressured them.

Thomas Paine was referring to a world where the "continent", the United States, that had many people and land, to be ruled by Britain, the "island".

It's a reasonably self-evident assertion. So far, there's never been a government that didn't to some extent, sooner or later, abuse at least some of its citizens; since the task of a government is to protect its citizens, this makes government "evil". Yet there's never been a human society which managed to function without government, which seems to make it "necessary".

Thus, a necessary evil.

Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a theif breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threaretens to killme, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to this absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villian, or an army of them?

Thomas Paine was the author of Common Sense

he wrote the pamplet "common sense" in colonial America which advocated separating from Britain and gaining independance

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and Thomas Paine's "The Crisis" papers. Both of these talked about independence: why the colonies should declare independence from Great Britain and how the colonists should go about becoming independent.

The main argument was to bring together the colonists and show how "rude" king george had been such as taxation without representation. this book was the first hugely best-selling book in america and it also turned many colonists against king george.

Creating an American republic would inspire common people everywhere to reject kings.

"Common Sense". It questioned the right of England to govern the American colonies and called for a constitution.

The last words of Thomas Paine were not:

"I would give worlds if I had them, that the Age of Reason had never been published. O, Lord, help me! Christ, help me! No, don't leave; stay with me! Send even a child to stay with me; for I am on the edge of Hell here alone. If ever the Devil had an agent, I have been that one."

The story that Thomas Paine recanted was first presented by Mary Hinsdale née Roscoe, a servant in the family of Mr. Willet Hicks who, when interviewed by Gilbert Vale, author of "The Life of Paine" (1841), reported that she had had no opportunity to have ever spoken wih Paine.

Dr. Moncure D. Conway, auuthor of "The Life of Thomas Paine" (1892)) says:

"His unwillingness to be left alone, ascribed to superstitious terror, was due to efforts to get a recantation from him, so determined that he dare not be without witnesses. He had foreseen this. While living with Jarvis, two years before, he desired him to bear witness that he maintained his theistic convictions to the last. ... When he knew that his illness was mortal he solemnly reaffirmed these opinions in the presence of Madame Bonneville, Dr. Romaine, Mr. Haskin, Captain Pelton, and Thomas Nixon." (Life of Paine, Vol. ii, p. 414.)

Witnessed by Amasa Woodsworth, and reported by Dr. Philip Graves, Dr. Manley asked Paine: "do you wish to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? After a pause of some minutes, Paine replied, 'I have no wish to believe on that subject.'"

Thomas Nixon and Capt. Daniel Pelton, who attended Paine during his last sickness, wrote, signed and sent the following statement to William Cobbett: "All you have heard of his recanting is false."

Paine's executors, Walter Morton and Thomas Addis Emmet, both attended Paine and both testified that no change took place in his opinions. Mr. Morton, who was present when he expired, says:

"In his religious opinions, he continued to the last as steadfast and tenacious as any sectarian to the definition of his own creed."

There are twenty death-bed witnesses, Madame Bonneville, Dr. Romaine, Dr. Manley, Rev. Cunningham, Rev. Milledollar, Mr. Pigott, Mrs. Redden, Willet Hicks, Mrs. Cheeseman, Amasa Woodsworth, Thomas Nixon, Captain Pelton, Walter Morton, Thomas Addis Emmet, Mrs. Few, Albert Gallatin, Mr. Jarvis, B.F. Haskin, Colonel Fellows, and Judge Hertell, many of them Christians, all affirming or admitting that Thomas Paine did not recant.

cuz he is powerful doe

He wrote common sense and he invented the horse bridle

Locke's social contract states that individuals give their country permission, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to assume some of their rights, and the individuals submit to the authority of the government, in exchange for protection of their remaining rights and freedoms.

This theory relates directly to what Paine says in Common Sense, in that the colonies have participated in the social contract by forfeiting their righs to the English Crown, but the Crown has not upheld its end of the bargain and has not secured or protected their remaining rights.