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How Did Thomas Paine Influence Society

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Thomas Paine Thomas Paine became so influential because he was a respectable, well-educated man who was writing in support of the ideas of the people. Despite his education, his books and pamphlets were written in a simple manner so everyone could understand what he wanted to say, and his book `Common Sense` had sold around 150,000 copies by 1776. This shows his audience was clearly made up of a wide range of people of many different classes. The two main ideas in his book were clear: his want for independence from Britain and for the creation of a democratic republic. The arguments he made in his book helped persuade the American colonists who were still unsure as to whether they wanted a full-scale revolution that it was the way to go
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