Thomas Paine Historical Association

I totally agree with all you said!

Thomas was more formal. Calling him Tom was the aristocrats and monarchy talking down to him.

Always remember, it's Thomas Paine, not 'Tom'. His enemies called him Tom to make fun of his as a commoner who had no standing to interfere with the established system.

DM me to talk about how we can work together. I can use a lot of help. We can do a call and I can explain what I'm working on. We have an board of the world's top Paine experts but there is much to be done.

NEW EVENT: TPHA is hosting a community reading of selected portions of Thomas Paine’s transformative work, Common Sense, published exactly 250 years ago from the date of our event. See more details at this link (Zoom available): thomaspaine.org/about/events

We can use help. We are busy w the 250th anniversary of Common Sense celebrations and the revolution itself. But the plan is to soon turn the org into more of an activist group. Fighting for democracy. As Paine would have wanted. Please join us. See our website and offer your support.

Yup. Paine was an amazing writer. I like your description of yourself basically calling for more people to take action. Do you have any advice for how TPHA can be more involved in the action people are taking to opposed the rise of US fascism? We need help.

Camp Thomas Paine was a Squatters Colony, a "Hooverville" shantytown, in New York City during the Great Depression located in Riverside Park of Manhattan along the Hudson River. This camp was specifically for World War I veterans and was photographed by Percy Loomis Sperr.

Bull House in Lewes, UK where Paine lived from 1768 to 1774. Paine wrote his political pamphlet ‘The Case of the Officers of Excise’ in 1772, asking Parliament for better pay and working conditions for excisemen. He participated in political debates and formed many political connections.

Paine: the "several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded. First, superstition. Secondly, power. Thirdly, the common interests of society and the rights of man. The first was government of priest craft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason"

There is nothing which obtains so general an influence over the manners and morals of a people as the Press; ... And of all publications, none are more calculated to improve or infect than a periodical one.

Thomas Paine, 'The Magazine in America' (1774).

As Thomas Paine said in Rights of Man “ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

Join our event in person or on Zoom, March 8th, 2026 at 2PM EST: TPHA President Gary Berton and TPHA Board Member Joy Masoff speak about "Thomas Paine in France", on his experiences during the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon. thomaspaine.org/about/events

His proposal for a simple form of universal basic income based on our shared ownership of this planet is the most obvious. It will come eventually. We need to get the word out about his proposal.

Very true. Well we need all the support we can get. If you wanna give back to Paine and make a donation, that's great. But I appreciate your support here too!

She was a Liberty Ship, designed to be built in mass production. Those ships won the war for the Allies. 👍🏻

The SS Thomas Paine was a 10,000-ton freighter that delivered arms and vital food supplies to the war front during World War II. This scene is Los Angeles, California, and the vessels include, (left to right), SS John C. Fremont, SS Thomas Paine and the SS Benjamin Franklin.

Yes, Agrarian Justice is an amazing piece of writing. He was far ahead of his time. I'm posting more and more. I hope we gain some traction. Are you on any other social media? Can you follow us there?

Haha yeah me too. It's a worldview we can use. I'm on the board of the TPHA and I'm trying to get at least some people interested in this stuff but I can't figure it out. Any ideas how to reach people?

'Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.' - Thomas Paine

Hi Bluesky, the Thomas Paine Historical Association is looking for donations and volunteers, especially in the area of our headquarters in New Rochelle, NY. Paine's name needs to ring out from Brooklyn to Bangladesh! Do you have any skills to offer? Any free time? thomaspaine.org

I'm transcribing the old TPS Bulletins to upload to our website so eventually I will have a link, but it is not ready yet.

It's from the Lewes Journal, 15, 1773. I don't have a link to the original, only a pdf of an article with the quote in Thomas Paine Society's 1979 - TPS Bulletin - Vol 6 - No 3 called "THOMAS PAINE: THE METHODIST INFLUENCE" by G. Hindiarch. Send your email if u want the pdf.

"To crush with your foot an inoffensive reptile, or otherwise needlessly maltreat any of the creatures that are put in your power, is the triumph of a little mind, and a species of cruelty." - Thomas Paine

"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things." - Thomas Paine

Yes we will definitely publish the event on YouTube when we are done. Thanks for your interest!

Sign up for our event Feb 21 at 4PM EST in New Rochelle, NY or on Zoom. TPHA Board Member Dr. Frances Chiu offers an in-depth discussion titled “Thomas Paine and Rights of Man“:

thomaspaine.org/about/events

YouTube video by Logic before Blind Belief THOMAS PAINE The Man Who Put Reason Above Religion

THOMAS PAINE The Man Who Put Reason Above Religion
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I added a comment to the post outlining the error. I don't have the time or energy to follow up on this further. Ill be more rigorous in the future.

"It has been the scheme of the... Church and all the other invented systems of religion to hold man in ignorance of his Creator, as it is of government to hold him in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support." - Paine