Ocupation: Inventor
Life: February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931
Birthday: February 11
Death: October 18
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
source: "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.
topic: Political, Principles, Constitution, Paine, Greatest Political