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What does Paine mean when he refers to "the summer soldier" and "the sunshine patriot"?
Here's the part of the passage it's used in:
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.
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2007-09-05
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