THIRDLY. - While we profess ourselves the subjects of Britain, we must… — Common Sense

Common Sense — Thomas Paine

THIRDLY. - While we profess ourselves the subjects of Britain, we must, in the eye of foreign nations, be considered as rebels. The precedent is somewhat dangerous to THEIR PEACE, for men to be in arms under the name of subjects; we, on the spot, can solve the paradox: but to unite resistance and subjection, requires an idea much too refined for common understanding.

Place: ¶156
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