"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 women. 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 - The Crisis - 1776
Below is the link to T. Paines works which served to ignite the american revouloutionary war.
Charles Kuralt who was a fly fisherman, would read the Declaration of Independence out loud to his family on each Fourth of July as a family tradition. Probably not a bad idea for us to adopt either.
Have a great holiday and lets not forget how this great country started giving us the freedoms we have and now need to defend further.
Hal
Thomas Paine
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/
Declaration of Independence
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
Thomas Paine - The Crisis - 1776
Below is the link to T. Paines works which served to ignite the american revouloutionary war.
Charles Kuralt who was a fly fisherman, would read the Declaration of Independence out loud to his family on each Fourth of July as a family tradition. Probably not a bad idea for us to adopt either.
Have a great holiday and lets not forget how this great country started giving us the freedoms we have and now need to defend further.
Hal
Thomas Paine
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/
Declaration of Independence
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm