Is The Following Stance True Or False: Volumes have been written on the subject of the struggle between England and America. Men of all ranks have embarked in the controversy, from different motives, and with various designs; but all have been ineffectual, and the period of debate is closed. Arms, as the last resource, decide the contest; the appeal was the choice of the king, and the continent hath accepted the challenge…. Based on this excerpt; Thomas Paine believed that the Americans have started the conflict with King George III and Parliament.