THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS

 

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“These are the times that try men’s souls.

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

— Thomas Paine, philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary, journalist, pamphleteer who authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the

American Revolution, Common Sense and The American Crisis. Thomas Paine, The Crisis No. I (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776).

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