Read this quotation.But the most powerful of all arguments is that nothing but independence . . . can keep the peace of the continent and preserve it . . . from civil wars.—Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776In this quotation, Paine suggests that independence

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is the only way to keep peace in the colonies.

Fighting the Revolutionary War

Read this quotation.But the most powerful of all arguments is that nothing but independence . . . can keep the peace of the continent and preserve it . . . from civil wars.—Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776In this quotation, Paine suggests that independence

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