"The American Crisis" by Thomas Paine - "These are the times that try men’s souls" - Broadside printed in Boston Sweatshirt And beneath him

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"The American Crisis" by Thomas Paine - "These are the times that try men’s souls" - Broadside printed in Boston Sweatshirt And beneath himThe American Crisis, Number 1, was written by Thomas Paine in 1776 and it opens with these stirring words: "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 his 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