THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
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men, not women, will suffer in the events that are coming
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This is a time that forces people to show their true selves
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a period of boredom is coming for the colonists
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those who fight in the revolution will be saved
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Detailed explanation-1: -He started with a phrase that duly summed up the situation: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” He goes on to exhort Americans to rally for the cause of liberty in spite of the hardships they faced, an exhortation that still evokes a sense of patriotism hundreds of year later.
Detailed explanation-2: -“These are the times that try men’s souls”, so wrote Thomas Paine on December 23, 1776.
Detailed explanation-3: -Our favorites: “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” “Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Common Sense made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. Paine relentlessly insisted that British rule was responsible for nearly every problem in colonial society and that the 1770s crisis could only be resolved by colonial independence.