The Crisis by Thomas Paine

"The Crisis by Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776, 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. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."
This during a crisis for early democracy in what is now the USA, even though the enemy was the then King of Great Britain, and not the world terrorism now faced by ordinary people. Democracy requires effort.