And though the sufferings she now endures are heavy, and severe, they are like straws in the wind compared to the weight of evils she would feel under the government of your king, and his pensioned Parliament.
Paine argues in "The American Crisis" that America's current struggles are minor compared to the oppression of continued British rule.
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