Thomas E. Quaynor, a Philander Smith college freshman from Ghana, East Africa, was recently awarded a $50.00 in a nationwide essay contest sponsored by the Thomas Paine Foundation.
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Thomas Paine, who gave the United States of America its name and, in some measure, the fighting courage of its convictions, was restored to citizenship in this suburban city today.
![“Reason against unreason” a 1882 illustration by Joseph Keppler and Adolph Schwarzmann shows the “Light of Reason”, containing bust portraits of “Johannes Kepler, I. Kant, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, B. de Spinoza, Franklin, Voltaire, E.H. Haeckel, Tyndall, Huxley, [and] Darwin”, beaming against a large umbrella labeled “Bigotry, Supernaturalism, [and] Fanaticism” – Library of Congress](https://thomaspaine.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Reason-against-unreason.jpg)
Probable greatest of all American radicals was individualist, political writer Thomas Paine. He could add the same two words together and get two or twenty.
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Paine was the friend of just principles, whatever the issue. Among other ideas that he advocated, and which had to wait years for their fulfillment, was that of freedom for the Negro.
The Thomas Paine National Historical Association is to erect a memorial building and ground will be broken then with appropriate ceremonies.
![Marker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the inscription, ‘At his print shop here, Robert Bell published the first edition of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet [Common Sense] in January 1776. Arguing for a republican form of government under a written constitution, it played a key role in rallying American support for independence.’ Erected in 1993 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission – Photo by J. J. Prats](https://thomaspaine.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/thomas-paine-common-sense-788x1024.jpg)
We have decided to translate this magnificent work into Slovenian, so that our compatriots may also read the irrefutable arguments that Paine presents in his book.
Paine was not only a great author and statesman, but he was distinctly a pioneer, an originator; an inventor and creator. To him we are indebted.
Representatives of foreign governments and historical and patriotic societies attended the unveiling of a bronze tablet to the memory of Paine at the house in Greenwich Village where he once lived.
The republic of Portugal is the latest recruit to the democratic army of nations. In a sense it is a child of the Declaration of Independence and as such should be enthusiastically welcomed by all Americans.
T. C. Jefferies Address at the One Hundred and First Anniversary of the Death of Thomas Paine in Dennison, Ohio in 1910
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It is planned to open a Thomas Paine National Museum at New Rochelle, N. Y., on Memorial day in the old house presented to Paine by the state of New York in 1784.
Although past efforts have been made to honor the memory of Thomas Paine, little was accomplished in this direction until the Thomas Paine National Historical Association was incorporated in 1905.
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