Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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For the 250th birthday of the United States, a monologue of excerpts from the writings of my favorite founding father, Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.

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