 George Washington was afraid that everything was going to be in vain because people were going to go home. They were losing most of the battle. People were dying. They didn't have any food. Many didn't have shoes. There was blood in the snow. I mean, why sign up? My family is in danger of starving. My farm is going to pieces and dying, all the crops. And so also Thomas Paine stands up and he says something that we've heard quoted many times, these.