Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was the author of the 1791 book Rights of Man. (PROSE: A Tour of the Capital)

In 1799 Marielle Duquesne cited rumours that Paine, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson practiced Witchcraft during the revolution. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)

He was honoured as "Cousin Thomas the Optimist" in the Liberté ritual of the Eleven-Day Empire's Feast of Fools. The Father playing his character would normally perform a speech beginning, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." (PROSE: A Tour of the Capital)