To: Molly Pitcher
“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.” I wonder when he wrote this if Thomas Paine even imagined that 230 years later these words would still ring so true.
3 posted on
12/22/2006 4:38:31 AM PST by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
To: commish
As understanding and brilliant as he was, he probably did believe they were words for the ages.
4 posted on
12/22/2006 4:44:14 AM PST by
Molly Pitcher
(We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
To: commish
That stood right out to me as well...
I agree, it is totally applicable today!!!
Good snag there!!!
6 posted on
12/22/2006 4:58:12 AM PST by
stevie_d_64
(Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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