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.
From his first American Crisis pamphlet, this passage defines true patriotism during the difficult early days of the Revolutionary War.
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