Thoughts to ponder

[Shooterman]

I subscribe to a quotes service that has quotes of the day awaiting me except on Saturday and Sunday.

I found them appropiate this morning and thought I'd share.

"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.
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."
-- Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
December 19, 1776
Source: The American Crisis, No. 1
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_...ine.Quote.80F8


"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine
whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves;
whether they are to have any property they can call their own;
whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and
themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness
from which no human efforts will deliver them.
The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God,
on the courage and conduct of this army.
Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only
the choice of brave resistance,
or the most abject submission.
We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
-- George Washington
(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'
Source: July 2, 1776, in orders sent to his officers explaining the war effort
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_...ton.Quote.1C11


"..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
-- Samuel Adams
(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_...ams.Quote.24FE

[conlor]

Excellent, Shooter!