Common Sense

8 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:

• The American Revolution

  Robert LeFevre · Robert LeFevre Commentaries

  He was a bridge builder, and now he wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense.

  Hear it at 19:21

• The Declaration of Independence

  Robert LeFevre · Robert LeFevre Commentaries

  … of 1776, Tom Paine, a bridge builder that no one had ever heard about, wrote a little track called Common Sense, and from that came the general idea that was then to be set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

  Hear it at 1:15

• Those Dirty, Rotten Taxes

  Charles Adams · The Bankruptcy of American Politics

  And George Washington thought they were so good that he had them printed and distributed at Winter Quarters, and one of them was called Common Sense.

  Hear it at 9:11

• 28. The Sudden Emergence of Tom Paine

  Murray N. Rothbard · Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV

  This fiery and brilliant pamphlet Common Sense, off the press in early January 1776, spread like wildfire throughout the colonies.

  Hear it at 5:31

• 29. Massachusetts Turns Conservative

  Murray N. Rothbard · Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV

  Significantly, he was supposed to have based his argument in part on Paine's Common Sense, which had just been published.

  Hear it at 22:55

• 31. The Struggle in Pennsylvania and Delaware

  Murray N. Rothbard · Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV

  George Chalmers, the young author of the pamphlet Plain Truth, An Attack on Common Sense, also Charles cited Montesquieu and attacked Paine for not resigning himself to the necessary imperfections of mankind's state, especially man's laws.

  Hear it at 11:24