“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 it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

Question

–Thomas Paine
American Crisis, Number 1

Choose the right word or phrase that completes each sentence.
Paine opens by saying that these are
.

Answer 1

Paine opens by saying that these are difficult times.