A Proper Price

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 by 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.  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
From:  “The Crisis“
23 December 1776
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