TPUK 1971 Number 1 Volume 4

A 1793 tin medal with Thomas Paine hanging from a tree holding a book, church to left. ‘Tommy’s Rights of Man’ is inscribed above the tree with Paine saying ‘I died for this damn’d book’. The reverse side says ‘May the tree of liberty exist to bear Tommy’s last friend’ – © The Trustees of the British Museum

The Resurgence Of Thomas Paine 

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1971 Number 1 Volume 4

No one illustrates a form of committing political suicide better than Thomas Paine. He did not hesitate a moment to rush in to promote every good cause and to expose every injustice, and he ended up being generally despised, with virtually everyone his enemy for one reason or another. 

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