27 December 2011
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
~Thomas Paine,
“The American Crisis, No. I,”
Pennsylvania Journal, December 19, 1776
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