| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43512 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Anglo-American political theorist, writer. Common Sense (1776).
Written as part of a series of pamphlets and entitled The American Crisis and signed Common Sense. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Paine Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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