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Show Lords, Keep Usfiree r Give Us Dteatlb The Value of Freedom These are the times that try men's souls. The sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of this country, count-ry, but he that stands it now deserves the 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 : Tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to set a price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom free-dom should not be highly rated. From Thomas Paine's "Common Sense " m g i |
