• When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

    Thomas Paine: When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
    Thomas Paine (1877). “The crisis: a series of pamphlets in sixteen numbers, written during the American revolution”