"I saw that if there was a small wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was still a more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as i was."
"I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had payed my tax."
Answer:
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men . . . it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.
The answer is Society
The answer should be C i hope its right
Thomas Paine claims that although America has for a time thrived under British rule, it has evolved and does not require the British monarchy any longer because the British monarchy only cares about Britain, and not about the Colonies. He adds that the colonists would be the one to die in wars against the French and the Spanish, and not the British.