• "Common Sense", by Thomas Paine
• "Common Sense", view original
• "Common Sense", full text
• Thomas Paine, The History Guide
• Thomas Paine, essays and letters
• Thomas Paine, Brainy Quotes
1632-1704: John Locke
1642-1727: Isaac Newton
1694-1778: Voltaire
1706-1790: Benjamin Franklin
1712-1778: Jean-Jaques Rousseau
1737-1809: Thomas Paine
1743-1826: Thomas Jefferson
1776: Declaration of Independence
1793: Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette executed