That Which We Obtain Too Easily We Esteem Too Lightly By Thomas Paine

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly,” a quote by Thomas Paine during the american crisis. A quote during a time of hardship and anger, you see my understanding of this is just simple you feel better the harder you work for something. But I know this has a deeper mean than just that, you have to go back into the time of which this was said, why is this so meaningful that's the question you have to ask. Why do people today still look at this quote of being relevant. The quote originates from colonial time when the colonies and Britian started to but heads with eachother. The colonies fell into hard times with Britain putting more and more tariffs on goods as well as adding many tax to the many already existing one in place,