Special Edition of Common Sense and The Rights of Man (American Heritage Library, National Rifle Association privately printed edition)

The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of al lmankind. Many circumstances have, 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. Teh 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 who nature hath given the power of feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is.