Cheering words for conservatives

I know that you’ll recognize these words immediately upon reading them.  I’ve only had to change them slightly to maintain their relevance to today’s issues:

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 by 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. Progressives, with an army of government workers, agencies and the IRS to enforce their tyranny, have declared that they have a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

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There are cases which cannot be overdone by language, and this is one. There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both. Obama’s first object is, partly by threats and partly by promises, to terrify or seduce the people to deliver up their money and receive mercy. George Soros recommended the same plan to the Democrats and Obama, and this is what the MSM call making their peace, “a peace which passeth all understanding” indeed! A peace which would be the immediate forerunner of a worse ruin than any we have yet thought of. Ye Americans, do reason upon these things! Were Americans to give up their arms, they would fall an easy prey to the Islamists, who are all armed: this perhaps is what some Progressives would not be sorry for.

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I thank God, that I fear not. I see no real cause for fear. I know our situation well, and can see the way out of it.

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By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue; by cowardice and submission, the sad choice of a variety of evils — a ravaged country — a depopulated city — habitations without safety, and slavery without hope — our homes turned into micro-managed branches of the government, and a future race to provide for, whose fathers we shall doubt of. Look on this picture and weep over it! and if there yet remains one thoughtless wretch who believes it not, let him suffer it unlamented.

December 23, 1776/December 3, 2012