But when their troubles shall become yours, and invasion be transferred upon the invaders, you will have neither their extended wilderness to fly to, their cause to comfort you, nor their hope to rest upon.
From a series of pamphlets written during the American Revolution, this passage warns the British invaders that they will lack the moral and physical resources that sustained the Americans when their fortunes turn.
Share
More from Thomas Paine
Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.
They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.
The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…