Ellie E. > Ellie's Quotes

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“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 William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
― Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!”
― Patrick Henry

“There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!”
― John Hancock

“Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
― John Parker

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
― Tom Paine

“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, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

“Remove yourself, sir!”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!”
― Israel Putnam