Question

Which quotation best shows Paine's sense if urgency?


"The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed"


"Time makes more converts than reason"


"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right"


"Government is a necessary evil"

Answer 1

"The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed"

This line directly urges immediate, decisive action — that the current critical moment must be used now or lost.