 So as the men slogged through the cold for hours on end, I really wonder what they were thinking. Just three days before, the words of Thomas Paine's book, American Crisis, had been read out loud to the soldiers to boost the morale. And these were the famous words Paine wrote, and I quote, These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of men and women.