Thomas Paine: “We are rich by contrivance of our own, which would have ceased as soon…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1776

We are rich by contrivance of our own, which would have ceased as soon as you became masters.

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Thomas Paine

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Paine asserts that American prosperity is self-generated and would be destroyed if Britain were to regain control.

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Thomas Paine: “We are rich by contrivance of our own, which would have ceased as soon as you became masters.”