Which part of the excerpt supports the claim that Paine believed the human cost of the colonists' armed struggle against the British was well worth the outcome?

The correct answer for the question that is presented is this one: "B) Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it."

Here are the following choices:

A) I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state

B) Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it

C) Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands

D) the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy

E) I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection