The world has seen her great in adversity; struggling, without a thought of yielding, beneath accumulated difficulties, bravely, nay proudly, encountering distress, and rising in resolution as the storm increased.
Paine praises America's unwavering resilience and increasing determination in the face of severe adversity during the revolutionary struggle.
Share
More from Thomas Paine
As soldiers have hitherto been treated in most countries, they might be said to be without a friend.
There is, therefore, no power but the voluntary will of the people that has a right to act in any matter respecting a general reform; and by the same right that two persons can confer on such a subject, a thousand may.
The insulted German and the enslaved Spaniard, the Russ and the Pole, are beginning to think.
But where genuine principles of liberty pervade a people, every thing is restored to order; and the soldier civilly treated, returns the civility.