Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here the other day. Yesterday, I believe it was,

we quoted John Locke with his appeal to heaven, which made it to the George Washington approved,

commissioned flag. Appealed to heaven, a quote on Judges 1127, John Locke, and his second treatise of government.

Today, I want to go from John Locke to Thomas Payne.

Thomas Payne, during the Revolutionary War in the beginning of it, we were losing.

We were getting crushed, battle after battle.

And Thomas Payne wrote, The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays, in order to boost morale.

A lot of famous lines in there.

These are the times that try men's souls, one of them.

I just want to share some of it here.

He starts off explaining the desperateness of the situation.

He says, let it be told to the future world that in the depth of

winter when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one

common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. The heart that feels not now is dead. The blood of his children will curse his cowardice who shrinks back at a time when a little

might have saved the whole i love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress

and grow brave by reflection.

Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.

So I'm just imagining being 1776 and you're in this country that's getting attacked by the king

and how desperate the situation is in reading this.

My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light.

Not all the treasures of the world so far as I believe could have induced me to support an offensive

war, for I think it murder. But if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property

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