But for England to receive any thing from America now, after so many insults, injuries and outrages, acted towards us, would show such a spirit of meanness in her, that we could not but despise her for accepting it.
From "The American Crisis," this passage argues that for England to accept anything from America after the war would demonstrate a profound lack of self-respect.
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