The "American Crisis" pamphlet was written by Thomas Paine is order to persuade the colonists that America was in need of full independence from British control, and that now was the time to fight. With the use of rhetoric and understandable reasoning, Paine generally accomplishes this. In order to influence or persuade, Paine understood that he must write with not just extreme passion, but also with confidence that his cause is a just one. The sentiment applied to leadership is similar to the sentiment that must be applied to general persuasiveness in that, in order for anyone to take your words with more than a grain of salt, you must be fully convinced that you're doing the right thing whether it is the right thing or not. Paine does an
