托马斯·潘恩（Thomas Paine）于1737年1月29日出生在英国诺福克郡。
他曾继承父业做过裁缝，后来做过教师、税务官员，后来投身欧美革命运动。
1802年在杰斐逊总统的邀请下，潘恩返回美国，投身于美国的革命运动。
1809年6月8日在纽约格林尼治村林苑路59号去世，享年72岁。
他的主要著作有：《常识》、《美国危机》、《理性时代》、《人权论》、《土地正义论》，其中以《常识》和《人权论》最为著名。
1776年1月，潘恩《常识》出版。
潘恩发表小册子《常识》，公开提出美国独立问题。
小册子痛斥世袭君主的罪恶：“在上帝眼中，一个普通的诚实人要比从古到今所有加冕的坏蛋更有价值。
”潘恩这篇文章，成了独立战争时期人民大众的教科书。
1791年3月，他在伦敦出版《人权论》，激烈抨击柏克的《法国革命感言录》，引起英吉利海峡两岸舆论界的轰动。
它冲破了当时笼罩于整个西方先进思想界对英国君主立宪政体的迷信，深刻地批判了这一政体，给当时还处于摸索状态的法国革命指明了共和主义的崭新方向。
潘恩是美国独立战争时期的启蒙是想家、激进的民主主义者。
他把他的一生都献给了英、法、美的民主事业，可结果却颠沛流离，不得其所。
托马斯潘恩为美国的独立革命做出了巨大的贡献，被广泛视为美国开国元勋之一。
Thomas Paine (Thomas Paine) born on January 29, 1737 in Norfolk, UK. He was once a tailor in his father's footsteps and then as a teacher and tax officials, then into the European and American revolutionary movement.In 1802 at the invitation of President Thomas Jefferson, paine returned to America, involved in the revolutionary movement in the United States.On June 8, 1809, died in New York City Greenwich village grove road no. 59, has died at the age of 72.His main works are: "common sense", "the American crisis" and "the age of reason", "human rights theory", "land justice theory", in which the "common sense" and "the theory of human rights" is the most famous.In January 1776, paine published "common sense".Paine published pamphlet "common sense", in public problem of American independence.Leaflets denounced hereditary monarch of evil: "in the eyes of god, a normal honest man is more valuable than bad guys all crowned in all ages."Paine, this article is the revolutionary war of the people of the textbook.In London in March 1791, he published "on human rights", the fierce attack of the French revolution speech recorded burke, the channel of the chattering classes on both sides of the hit.It broke through the was enveloped in the advanced western thinkers, constitutional monarchy superstitions in Britain, a deeply critical of the regime, to that state is still in the groping of the French revolution pointed out the new direction of republicanism.Pine is the enlightenment of American independent war is homesick, radical democrat.He devoted all his life to Britain, France, the United States of democracy, but only to drift from place to place, it is not allowed.Thomas paine for the American revolution made great contributions, was widely seen as one of America's founding fathers.。
