Common Sense

Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling American title which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. His The American Crisis (1776–83) was a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.

• The Federalist Papers (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics)
• Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Constitution of the United States
• The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
• The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (Writings of Thomas Paine)
• The Complete Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
• The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
• On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence: The Constitution of the United States of America