[90889] in Cypherpunks
Re: quotes2.htm#During-the-War:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue Nov 25 19:30:13 1997
In-Reply-To: <199711250528.XAA16560@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:10:43 -0500
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 12:28 am -0500 on 11/25/97, Jim Choate wrote:
> "These are the times that try men=92s souls=85"
>
> This quote was written by Thomas Paine after the writing of the
> Declaration of Independence in a forty-seven page pamphlet called
> Common Sense. His purpose for saying this was to try to persuade the
> Americans to demand independence, rather then try to patch up their
> differences with Great Britain. The effect it had was it made George
> Washington start to prepare his army.
> _________________________________________________________________
Woops. Saw this one last night. This one's actually written after "Commo=
n
Sense". It's from "On the Present(or American?) Crisis" or something, whi=
ch
was actually written in camp, just before Washington crossed the Deleware
and started his first counteroffensive. See? The People's Television
Network's good for something. Clocks right twice a day, and all that...
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