Times That Try Men's Souls

"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 his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." --Thomas Paine, The American Crises, No. 1, 1776



"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" - Letter to John Pitts, January 21, 1776



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