Stamp Act Quotes

• The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

  Rand Paul

  Kings, Obamacare, Justice

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• The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

  George Washington

  Hands, Pockets, Revolution

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• If this be treason, make the most of it!

  Patrick Henry

  Conservative, Treason, Ifs

  Speech in Virginia House of Burgesses,Williamsburg, Va., May 1765.

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• My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Liberty, Causes, Opinion

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• In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

  Dave Barry

  School, Literature, Students

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Patrick Henry

  History, Brutus, Firsts

  Speech in Virginia House of Burgesses,Williamsburg, Va., May 1765.

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• The shot heard round the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revolutionary War, Augusta National, April And Spring

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

  Peter Thomas

  Thinking, Revolution, Stamps

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• On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  House, March, Resolution

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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