<P> Paine's writing greatly influenced his contemporaries and, especially, the American revolutionaries . His books provoked an upsurge in Deism in America, but in the long term inspired philosophic and working - class radicals in the UK and US . Liberals, libertarians, Left - libertarians, feminists, democratic socialists, social democrats, anarchists, free thinkers, and progressives often claim him as an intellectual ancestor . Paine's critique of institutionalized religion and advocacy of rational thinking influenced many British free thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as William Cobbett, George Holyoake, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Hitchens and Bertrand Russell . </P> <P> The quote "Lead, follow, or get out of the way" is widely but incorrectly attributed to Paine . This can be found nowhere in his published works . </P> <P> When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Paine's deism; a political associate, Samuel Hill, burned it to save Lincoln's political career . Historian Roy Basler, the editor of Lincoln's papers, said Paine had a strong influence on Lincoln's style: </P> <Dl> <Dd> No other writer of the eighteenth century, with the exception of Jefferson, parallels more closely the temper or gist of Lincoln's later thought . In style, Paine above all others affords the variety of eloquence which, chastened and adapted to Lincoln's own mood, is revealed in Lincoln's formal writings . </Dd> </Dl>

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