Charles Morris: "Its stirring tones filled all minds with the thirst for liberty."
Nouvelle Biographie Generale (France): "The pamphlet produced a prodigious effect."
"The success of this writing of Paine," says the Italian patriot and historian, Charles Botta, "cannot be described."
W. H. Bartlett: "This pamphlet produced an indescribable sensation."
John Andrews, LL.D.: "It was received with vast applause."
Timothy Pitkins: "'Common Sense' produced a wonderful effect in the different Colonies in favor of Independence."
Rev. William Gordon: "Nothing could have been better timed than this performance."
Boston Gazette (April 29, 1776): "Had the spirit of prophecy directed the birth of a publication it could not have fallen on a more fortunate period than the time in which 'Common Sense' made its appearance."
"In the elements of its strength it was precisely fitted to the hour, to the spot and to the passions."—Prof. Moses Coit Tyler.
Melville M. Bigelow: "No pamphlet was so timely, none had such an effect."