![]() ![]() ![]() Even the expression is impious for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. 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.īritain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. 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. THESE are the times that try men’s souls. ![]() 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.” “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. ![]() George Washington, soldiers, the crisis, Thomas Paine ![]()
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