Paine said it was the interest of America to break the tie with Europe.

Was a whole continent in America to be governed by an island a thousand leagues away?
Of what advantage was it to remain connected with Great Britain?
It was said that a united British Empire could defy the world, but why should America defy the world?
"Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation." Interested men, weak men, prejudiced men, moderate men who do not really know Europe, may urge reconciliation, but nature is against it.

Paine broke loose in that denunciation of kings with which ever since the world has been familiar.

The wretched Briton, said Paine, is under a king and where there was a king there was no security for liberty.
Kings were crowned ruffians and George III in particular was a sceptered savage, a royal brute, and other evil things.

He had inflicted on America injuries not to be forgiven.