Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.
Paine defiantly embraces the label of 'rebel' while vehemently rejecting any allegiance to a monarch he views as morally corrupt and tyrannical.
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