TOM PAINE ON IRAQ

“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. 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.”

NOT BAD FOR A DEAD WHITE GUY, and Howard Dean and the boys
could never come up with it.