4 Jul 2019 10:16 am
Thomas Paine quote
“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”
This country has too many summer soldiers and sunshine patriots...the Founders knew that it would take sacrifice to gain freedom...and they were willing to make that sacrifice, even it cost them their lives...modern Americans are nothing like those who stood up to the British...modern Americans are divided by ethnicity, religion, gender...modern Americans don't possess in their entire bodies, what the Founders had in their small finger...
As Benjamin Franklin said:
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately..
The question we all need to ask ourselves is what are we willing to do???