In The American Crisis, Paine asserts that people who refuse to stand up to tyranny are endangering generations for years to come. Which details from the text help convey this idea?

Select the two correct answers.

A“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel…”

B“…but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

C“The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy.”

D“'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace'; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”