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.
(What better time then our Independence Day 2021 to take a look at a true patriot who fought to free us from the tyranny of a European country which brave men and women fled to find FREEDOM in the 1700’s. Thomas Paine was this man, who inspired with just one of his writings – Common Sense – great men such as Washington, Jefferson and Adams, to name a few, that all must band together and take a very strong stand, fight as never before as more and more of our freedoms were being not only threatened but taken away.
These statements are as true today as they were when written. His writings were the precursor of our most important document, The Declaration of Independence.)
