If the new ministry wisely avoid this hopeless policy, they will prove themselves better pilots and wiser men than they are conceived to be; for it is every day expected to see their bark strike upon some hidden rock, and go to pieces.
Paine advises the new British ministry to avoid a certain policy to prove their wisdom and leadership.
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