A Call To Patriots, December 23, 1776

From the Crisis

"Let them call me a rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man."

-Thomas Paine

How could that be so true more than 200 years later?