On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
United, she is formidable, and that with the least possible charge a nation can be so; separated, she is a medley of individual nothings, subject to the sport of foreign nations.
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Thomas Paine
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Paine contrasts the formidable strength of a united nation with the vulnerability of a divided one.
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