“These are the times that try men's souls.”
Source: The American Crisis
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Thomas Paine262
English and American political activist 1737–1809Related quotes
“There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Little Man and Little Soul.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Nelson Mandela on challenges, Letter to Winnie Mandela (1 February 1975), written on Robben Island. Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes <br class="br">1970s
“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
“I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.”
In a Balcony.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There is no evil in the atom, only in men's souls.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speech in Hartford, Connecticut (18 September 1952)
Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy
Page 96
Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest
Source: First Meetings in Ender's Universe
