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May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the...

—Joseph Warren

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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?” he asked. …”Ask me again in the morning.

—Donna Thurland

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Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow...

—Joseph Warren

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Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would...

—Christopher Hitchens

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And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by...

—Joseph Warren

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Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and no natural ability? As far as he could tell there had been no...

—Dory Codington

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Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

—Paine

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I am an aristocrat,” Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. “I love liberty; I hate equality.

—Colin Woodard

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Give me liberty or give me death.”[From a speech given at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in...

—Patrick Henry

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New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new...

—Edward Pearson

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Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good...

—Thomas Paine

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One if by land, two if by sea.

—Henry Wadsworth

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Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is...

—Thomas Paine

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Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

—Joseph J. Ellis

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The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of...

—Thomas Paine

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I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.

—Ann Rinaldi

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Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like...

—Joseph J. Ellis

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[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving...

—Samuel Adams

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Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.

—Bryant McGill

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The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcely believe...

—Gordon S.

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Sentimentality was used because other political avenues were closed, and authors hoped that through it they could bring about a political change that would fulfill the egalitarian promises of the Revolution. Real political venues were...

—Todd M.

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For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow or even the alteration of the existing social order but the...

—Bernard Bailyn

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Remove yourself, sir!

—David McCullough

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We are a strong nation not because we are inter-dependant on outside sources; but because we believe in ourselves.

—Wayne Chirisa

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Vox populi vox Dei

—Stephen A. Douglas

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