The American Crisis - Thomas Paine

In The American Crisis, Thomas Paine gave the colonists a good reason to join forces with him and fight. "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph".  People are easily bribed by reward, and according to Thomas Paine, because freedom is such a difficult task to fight for, the outcome will be greater. "Heaven knows how to put a proper price upons its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."  Here, Paine is arguing that God regards freedom as highly important, and therefore will reward his people for having the courage to fight for it. Later, Paine adds, "I thank God that I fear not".  Thomas Paine is counting on God to keep him safe in war.  "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, or to leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent".  Paine has faith that God will reward the colonists with victory, considering their devotion and the sacrifices they have made for this cause.  I believe the main point of Thomas Paine's "The American Crisis" can be summed up in one central quote.  "Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but 'show your faith by your works,' that God may bless you."  This implies that God wants Paine and his fellow colonists to prove their faith in him by engaging in a fight for freedom.  If Paine and his fellow colonists show their faith in God, he will reward them.