On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
Was America, then, the giant of the empire, and England only her dwarf in waiting!
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “Was America, then, the giant of the empire, and England only her dwarf in waiting!”
Editor's note · Context
Paine uses a rhetorical question to invert the perceived power dynamic between America and England within the empire.
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