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Thomas PaineThese are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his 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.
-Thomas Paine (The American Crisis 1770-1783) Immediate necessity makes many things convenient which, if continued, would grow into oppressions. When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. -Thomas Paine (Common Sense 1776) Thomas Paine. 1737-1809. American political theorist and writer. Born England; came to America 1774. His Common Sense (Jan, 1776) hastened Declaration of Independence, and his pamphlet series The American Crisis heartened patriots in the Revolution.
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