Knowing my own heart and feeling myself as I now do, superior to all the skirmish of party, the inveteracy of interested or mistaken opponents, I answer not to falsehood or abuse, but proceed to the defects of the English Government.
In "Rights of Man," Paine declares his intention to rise above partisan disputes and address the fundamental flaws of the English government.
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