Thomas Paine was born in Norfolk, England in 1737 before immigrating to America in 1774. He was a leader of radical movements in both Britain and America, his pamphlet Common Sense was so influential in the American Revolution that John Adams said 'without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain'.
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