On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
Were it possible a people could sink into such apostacy they would deserve to be swept from the earth like the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Thomas Paine
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Paine asserts that any people who would betray their principles by submitting to tyranny would be morally deserving of utter destruction.
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