Refutation of Reconciliation

From Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Paine answers moderates who hope for reconciliation by appealing to the bloodshed at Lexington and the impossibility of forgiving a government that has made war on its own people.
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
No man was a warmer wisher for reconciliation than myself, before the fatal nineteenth of April, 1775, but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejected the hardened, sullen tempered Pharaoh of England for ever.
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Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
Can ye give to prostitution its former innocence? Neither can ye reconcile Britain and America.
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