The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph July 4, 2007
Posted by Idta in : Constitution, Quotes , trackbackDavid Van Os describes today’s summer soldiers and sunshine patriots:
To quote one of the great pamphleteers (of whom today’s bloggers are the successors) of the Revolution, Thomas Paine,
“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 glorious the triumph” COMMON SENSE, December 23, 1776.
Who are today’s summer soldiers and sunshine patriots? They are the representatives of tyranny who claim the power of the Constitution and the protection of the law while trampling on the very Constitution and rule of law which give them the power and protection they claim; they are the acolytes who proclaim a love of freedom while suppressing dissent; they are the royalists who mouth support for democracy while establishing aristocracy in their own country[.]
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