How does Thomas Paine use imagery in Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings?

Paine compares America’s continued state of being under British rule to babies feeding on milk.

Paine compares Americans to, “a man who is attached to a prostitute is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one” (Paine 106). Again, an allusion to British rule.