Times That Try Men's Souls

<p>"You will have heard before this reaches you of the Commencement of a Civil War; the End of it perhaps neither myself, nor you, who are much younger, may live to see."  -Ben Franklin, 1775</p> <p>"Almost half the signers of the Declaration of Independence had some form of seminary training or degree."  -<em>A Patriot's History of the United States</em></p> <p>"France... came away from the conflict with... a terrific debt, which played no small part in its own revolution in 1789."  -<em>A Patriot's History of the United States</em></p> <p>"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..."  -Thomas Paine, 1776</p>