Which detail from The American Crisis develops the key idea that times of crisis often reveal important truths that inspire change?
“But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered.”
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: It is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
“I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction…”
“The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country…”
