Those who were advocates for the British government over these colonies, were obliged to limit both their arguments and their ideas to the period of an European peace only; the moment Britain became plunged in war, every supposed convenience to us vanished, and all we could hope for was not to be ruined.
Paine criticizes loyalists for basing their arguments on a false premise of perpetual European peace, which quickly dissolved when Britain went to war.
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In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.
It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.
The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.