Thomas Paine and James Otis were both influential American pamphleteers who wrote about the importance of patriotism during the American Revolution. Paine was a British-born political philosopher and revolutionary whose pamphlet 'Common Sense' was instrumental in convincing many colonists to support the cause of independence. Otis was an American lawyer and politician who wrote several pamphlets advocating for the rights of the colonists. Both Paine and Otis were important figures in the struggle for American independence and their writings helped to shape the nation's patriotic spirit.