Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Tyranny

• If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Veterans Day, Mean, Men

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• Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, Men, Shackles

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Army, Ideas, Defeated

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.179

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