Post something the previous poster would have said in a July, 1776 era forum

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Hell yeah, let's go to war!

[HappyWarrior]

Virginia dynasty forever!

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

"Let the British have New Jersey"

[Brittain33]

"Gentlemen, which chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes does the previous correspondent remind you of? Which elector of the Holy Roman Empire does he most resemble? If he were a contemptible illness common to the grenadiers of King Louis XVI, which would he be?"

[Beet]

Opinion of Charles III?

I say Freedom Fighter.

[Person Man]

I really hope we can defend Maryland, those redcoats are total douchebags.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

In 100 years, I'll have to learn about this.

[Brittain33]

Honorable people can disagree about the war, but it is only ONE issue. General Arnold for President!

[HappyWarrior]

Who wants some tea?

[afleitch]

(To his slave) Once the cause is won, truly this continent will never go to war again.

[Bono]

Och, ye hear about the trouble in the colonies? Let us hope our Scots relatives there stay loyal to the Crown.

[The Mikado]

COMMON SENSE

By Thomas Paine

Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his OWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either. In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion. The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.

[Person Man]

I really do hope that the British will maintain their civility during this conflict.

[Bono]

In a few weeks we should reach the nearest town to get supplies for the Winter.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

This doesn't really concern me.