Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.''Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man (1791-2) was the most famous defence of the French Revolution and sent out a clarion call for revo...