My children in the condemnation of Thomas Paine, in the times which tried men's souls, this Patriot castigated and condemned those in America who thought they could walk the fine line of appeasing the regime while not assisting America to keep their investments safe.
This is for the species of non donors.
"But there are a certain species of Tories with whom conscience or principle has nothing to do , and who are so from avarice only. Some of the first fortunes on the continent, on the part of the Whigs, are staked on the issue of our present measures. And shall disaffection only be rewarded with security?
Can any thing be a greater inducement to a miserly man , than the hope of making his Mammon safe?
And though the scheme be fraught with every character of folly, yet, so long as he supposes , that by doing nothing materially criminal against America on one part , and by expressing his private disapprobation against independence, as palliative with the enemy, on the other part, he stands in a safe line between both ; while, I say, this ground be suffered to remain, craft , and the spirit of avarice, will point it out, and men will not be wanting to fill up this most contemptible of all characters.
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Yes the sunshine patriot reads here in the illumination of the computer screen thinking it is their light and the summertime soldier mistakes the warmth of their breast is patriotism when the only heat source is from their processors, as their skin is as papery as dollars, their hearts as cold as gold and their spirit as dead as an e trade without current.
nuff said
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