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Quotes from America in the 1700s
Patrick Henry 1736 - 1799
May 1765
"Caesar had his Brutus - Charles the
First, his Cromwell - and George the Third - ('Treason,' cried the
Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make
the most of it."
March 23, 1775
"I know not what course others may
take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
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John Adams 1735 - 1826
1774
"A government of laws, and not
of men."
March 23, 1776
"In politics the middle way is
none at all."
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1776 - Thoughts on Government
"The happiness of society is the end
of government."
1776 - Thoughts on Government
"Fear is the foundation of most government."
July 15, 1813 - Letter to Thomas Jefferson
"You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to
each other."
Samuel Adams 1722 - 1803
April 19, 1775 - On hearing gunfire at Lexington:
"What a glorious morning is this."
(Traditionally quoted as: "What a glorious morning for America.")
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Nathan Hale 1755 - 1776
September 22, 1776 - Prior to his execution by the British for spying
"I only regret that I have but one
life to lose for my country."
John Paul Jones 1747 - 1792
September 23, 1779 - As his ship was about to sink, after having
been asked whether he had lowered his flag:
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809
"A share in two revolutions is living
to some purpose."
1776 - Common Sense
"Government, even in its best state,
is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government,
like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are
built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
1776 - Common Sense
"As to religion, I hold it to be the
indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors
thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to
do therewith."
December 1776 - The Crisis
"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 men and women."
1792 - On Edmund Burke losing the debate on the French Revolution
to Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons:
"As he rose like a rocket, he fell
like the stick."
1792 - The Rights of Man
"When, in countries that are called
civilized, we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows,
something must be wrong in the system of government."
1792 - The Rights of Man
"My country is the world, and my religion
is to do good."
1794 - The Age of Reason
"It is necessary to the happiness of
man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist
in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe,
what one does not believe."
1794 - The Age of Reason
"Any system of religion that has any
thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system."
1795 - The Age of Reason Part 2
"The sublime and the ridiculous are
often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.
One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above
the ridiculous, makes the sublime again."
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