It’s amazing how, with so few changes, the words of Thomas Paine, written during the American Revolution, can be made to represent the crisis we are in today. Only the brackets are added/modified.
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. [Our president], with an army [of Czars] to enforce [his] tyranny, has declared that [he] has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in [Socialism]," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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