On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
Let, then, the world see that she can bear prosperity: and that her honest virtue in time of peace, is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.
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Thomas Paine
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Written after the American victory at Yorktown, this passage urges America to demonstrate virtue in peacetime as it did in war.
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