Patrick Paine is a pen name chosen in deliberate homage to two giants of liberty: Thomas Paine, the revolutionary pamphleteer who lit the fire of American independence with Common Sense, and Patrick Henry, whose cry of “Give me liberty, or give me death!” still echoes across the centuries.
This project stands in that tradition, radical in its defense of freedom, uncompromising in its opposition to political violence, and unapologetic in its suspicion of state power.
The writing here draws not only from the Revolutionary era but from the long intellectual arc of liberty:
- Thomas Jefferson, who warned against the ever-growing reach of centralized authority.
- Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian tradition, who exposed the economic illusions of statism.
- Lew Rockwell and the Mises Institute, who carried forward anarcho-capitalist and anti-war thought into the modern era.
- Thomas Sowell, who brought clarity, moral seriousness, and empirical rigor to the study of freedom and responsibility.
Patrick Paine is not a politician, nor a party man. This is a voice in the tradition of pamphleteers, sharp, plainspoken, and sometimes incendiary, but always rooted in the conviction that liberty is indivisible, violence is poison, and truth belongs to no faction.
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