The wisdom of every country, when properly exerted, is sufficient for all its purposes; and there could exist no more real occasion in England to have sent for a Dutch Stadtholder, or a German Elector, than there was in America to have done a similar thing.
Paine asserts that each nation possesses the inherent wisdom to govern itself, rendering foreign rulers unnecessary and illogical.
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