What was ironic about the American Revolution was the fact that many Americans were still deeply loyal to King George III. Many Americans did not realize their desire to break away from Great Britain but when the eloquent and outspoken Thomas Paine wrote his famous Common Sense, in it he proclaimed the incoherency of Great Britain ruling a smaller America. This was a radical calling for a new republic and a break with England. Thomas Paine’s idea of a republic was what the Greeks and Romans championed, this republic would be ruled by the people. Paine’s advocations were widely supported by the colonists who thought that the grievances were acts of a conspiracy to remove Americans of their liberties. His republic would exterminate the unjust hereditary aristocracy and citizen “virtue” would be the one of the most important pillars holding up a republic.