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Patrick Henry
announced, "Give me liberty or give me
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Americans should
refuse to give
our adversaries such option. Americans
must demand,
"Give me the liberty guaranteed me by
God and Constitution, or I will fight to
regain my liberty in permanence". |
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To inspire the men
of the Revolutionary Army, General
George Washington had The American
Crisis pamphlet read aloud to them.
Paine's first Crisis pamphlet
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"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." |
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Today's Americans
have their task made easy -- relatively
-- thanks to the Founding Fathers and
the many pamphleteers of our
Revolutionary period. These -- genuine
and real -- men analyzed, considered,
and wrote all that is needed today to
dispel and dispose of our
recently-arrived tyrants. |
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