With an unsparing hand, and an insatiable mind, you have desolated the world, to gain dominion and to lose it; and while, in a frenzy of avarice and ambition, the east and the west are doomed to tributary bondage, you rapidly earned destruction as the wages of a nation.
In "The American Crisis," Paine condemns Britain's insatiable ambition and avarice, which have desolated the world and earned the nation destruction.
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