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Doubting Thomas.(Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations)(Book review)
There is a passage, laid down by Thomas Paine in the first installment of his 1776 political tract The American Crisis, that--in its precision, its intensity, its moral clarity--is a piece of unmitigated, coruscating beauty:
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 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.
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