Morski

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Sad thing is that we will look at today as the day when our country failed.

The words of Thomas Paine’s Crisis No. 1 are relevant today as they were when written on 19 December 1776. 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. 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.