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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTom Paine December 23, 1776
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 by 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.
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Tom Paine December 23, 1776 (Original Post)
kentuck
Apr 2018
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flying_wahini
(6,684 posts)1. Wow. He never fails to make me swoon. He was a great American.
murielm99
(30,780 posts)2. I often worry that I am a summer soldier
and sunshine patriot. I'm not, really. But I could do more.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)3. Tom Paine definitely knew his 'Henry V'.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)4. I thought I'd heard something like that before.
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here."
Aristus
(66,509 posts)5. Yes, although I was thinking of an earlier line:
"The fewer men, the greater share of honour."
poboy2
(2,078 posts)6. Tom Paine was a great American.
Tom paine is a proto-socialist hero.