Which statement reflects the magnitude and importance of the idea of independence?

A. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent—of at least one-eighth part of the habitable globe.
B. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor.
C. The least fracture now will be like
D. a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak;