Thomas Paine begins publishing the American Crisis essays: “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 his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
[restored 7/24/2021]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 2
ccc-2point0.com/ unanimous Declaration
References:
The American Crisis – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Crisis