November 11, 2003

VETERANS DAY IN A COUNTRY AT WAR

On this Veterans Day, 2003, in the midst of a war against totalitarian Islam let us turn away from the carping and whining of the nugatory nine, the Democratic candidates for the Presidential nomination. Instead, consider the bracing words of another man who knew what a war for freedom meant, 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 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..." Read the rest here.

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