Forever changing and forever wrong; too distant from America to improve in circumstances, and too unwise to foresee them; scheming without principle, and executing without probability, their whole line of management has hitherto been blunder and baseness.
Paine delivers a harsh indictment of British policy towards America, characterizing it as consistently misguided, unprincipled, and incompetent.
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