Moonstone Presents:
THOMAS PAINE'S LEGACY
Celebrate this July 4 by learning more about the most amazing, most interesting, most radical of the Founders of the United States, Thomas Paine. The only founder of our country to never own slaves. The only founder of our country to, not only to not profit from the revolution, but who gave all the money earned from the publication of Common Sense, the best selling book in 1776, to support the revolution and George Washington's Army. Not only did Paine, in a very real sense start the revolution with Common Sense, but, when victory was in doubt, he reinvigorated the revolution with The American Crisis
| 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. |
The American Crisis (19 December 1776)
Join us as we examine Thomas Paine's Legacy in four programs: revolution for political equality on June 28; revolution for economic equality on July 5; revolution for social equality on July 12 and revolution for the twenty-first century on July 19.