Revolution Quotes - Page 30

• Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

  Answers, Absurd, Contempt

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• All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

  George Mason

  People, Should, Buckles

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• The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Soldier, Madness, Insolence

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.437

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• For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

  Henry Knox

  Men, Fire, Care

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• Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

  Joseph Warren

  Hands, Arrows, Doe

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• The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

  Nicholas Cresswell

  Government, Slave, Whining

  Nicholas Cresswell (2007). “The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell”, Applewood Books

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• The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

  George III

  Triumph, Retreat, Casts

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• We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

  George III

  Determined, Illegal, Congress

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• For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Fate, Subtle

  "Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings".

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• If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Army, America, Six Months

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• I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

  George Washington

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

  George Washington

  Army, Usual, Pay

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• To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence... To Mrs Washington's travelling expenses in coming to and returning from my winter quarters, the money to defray that taken from my private purse: 1064 pounds, one shilling.

  George Washington

  Taken, Winter, Glasses

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• Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Liberty, Slavery, May

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• Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

  Benjamin Franklin

  England, Remember, Slave

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• That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

  George Mason

  Tyrants, People, Gentleman

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• The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Abolition Of Slavery, Bears, Slavery

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• Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Black, Sculpture, Levels

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• A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

  George Washington

  Moving, Government, Half

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.306

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• The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Two, Justice

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Why can I not fight for my country too?

  Deborah Sampson

  Country, Fighting, American Revolution

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• The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

  George Washington

  Party, Ideas, Great Business

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• Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sheep, Ass, Folly

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

  Benjamin Hawkins

  Soldier, Citizens, Responsible

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• A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with no center of union and no common interest.

  Josiah Tucker

  People, Till The End, Unions

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