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• 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 our men and women....
• What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
  Thomas Paine...
• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value....
• Are we being too literal?
• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which
  he vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success....
• Picard: "Gul Macet, the Federation and the Cardassians have struggled too hard for peace.
  ..to abandon it so easily." Macet: "*We* are not the ones who have abandoned it, captain....
• We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
• No muff's too tough. We dive at five.