Thomas Paine (1737-1809), was an English intellectual, pamphleteer, author, inventor, revolutionary and one of the U.S. Founding Fathers. Paine spent 1790s in France and during this time, he became deeply involved in the Revolution. “The Rights of Man” is one of the most important Paine’s works, in which he defends the French Revolution. In 1792, [...]
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman and Conservative politician. Churchill was Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He is known as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. Churchill was a Nobel Prize winner (for literature) and the first Honorary Citizen of the U.S. During his first [...]
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George Mason (1725-1792), an American statesman and patriot, was one of the U.S. Founding Fathers, also known as “the father of the Bill of Rights”. Mason insisted on adding individual rights and explicit States rights to the Constitution. The first ten amendments resulted from Mason’s efforts. The ten amendments were based on Mason’s Virginia Declaration [...]