His exceptional writing and simple style reached many receptive ears throughout the colonies. He too spoke as clearly as he did with de Crevecoeur, but in his writings he tended to move away from the rural and the pleasant and more towards the politics and ugly truths that were part of colonial life. Considering his most famous work “Common Sense” is an agitation against the crown of England, this would become a pattern with that man. In its most basic form, “common sense” is a call to arms and revolution. It is also an important, if very long, argument about what should happen once the war is won with the establishment of a republic. “The sun has never shone on a greater cause. It is not a question of a city, a county, a province or a kingdom; but of a continent, of at least one eighth of the habitable globe. It is not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity is virtually involved in the controversy, and will be more or less influenced to the end of time by the present proceeding” (Paine 136). This is Paine's original thoughts on the topic and his opening argument. He continues: “We have boasted of the protection of Great Britain without considering that its motive was interest, not attachment; and who did not protect us from our enemies for our sake, but from his enemies for his sake, from those who had nothing in conflict with us for any other reason, and who will always be our enemies for the same reason. (Paine 137). It seems like a rather simple argument to the author that Americans are involved in foreign wars only because of the association with Great Britain. He makes another claim that “America would have flourished just as much, and probably much more, if no European power had paid attention to her. The trade with which it has enriched itself is the necessities of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe. (Paine 137). Paine's appeal to the republic