The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure is."
Nice.
You have a way with words and would have made a fine founding father with your "Common Sense".
That is the preamble to the pamplet by Thomas Paine of that title. Sorry I don't manage italics on my phone to denote a title.
There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!
