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Where are the Tom Paines of our generation when we need them?

A brilliant historian writes beautifully in the New Yorker about Paine. Yeah, yeah, it’s the New Yorker, but good writing is good writing wherever it appears.

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Amazing words Paine wrote. To be read slowly and savored:

“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 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.”

Geo. Washington read these words to his troops before crossing the Delaware on a freezing day.
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