The road ahead will be long. our climb will be steep. we may not get there in one year or even one term, but america dash –i have never been more hopeful than i am tonight that we will get there. i promise you dash –we as a people will get there. there will be setbacks and false starts. we know government can't solve every problem. but i will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. i will listen to you, especially when we disagree. and above all, i will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in america for two-hundred and twenty-one years dash –block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. the speaker probably believes in all of the following except a. facing challenges b. easy solutions c. hard work d. team spirit

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war