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I just bought his major works, was there any more American founding father than Paine? He seems to have embodied the spirit of the Revolution and Republic.

>> No.22482012

>>22481453
Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams
Paine's a sing-song incendiary, not a Founder per se
Read The Federalist Papers tbw

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>>22481453
Paine was extremely based, as for seething posters like >>22482012, I'll just quote John Adams for you: "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain."

Paine really spoke truth to power in a fearless, dauntless way, endured prison for his writings, and made all the right people furious. All time legend of a man.

>> No.22483292

>>22482106
>seething
kek. Are you able to even read your own response? I said NOTHING about Paine's worthiness as either a partisan or a patriot, or that incendiaries like Sam Adams and Patrick Henry (and Paine) weren't somehow unnecessary to 'the cause,' but the only quasi-foundational piece of lit TP ever penned, The Rights of Man, was unleashed upon the West in 1791, two years after the foundation of the French Republic, fourteen years (1787's my marker) after that of the American.