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“And here, without anger or resentment, I bid you farewell. Sincerely wishing, that as men and Christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right, and be, in your turn, the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.”
― Thomas Paine

“2 young ladies to sing us the new liberty song
readiness to be shot / versus / taxes”
― Ezra Pound, The Cantos

“You will never feel complete if you allow your heart to become a place of compromise. --George Pennington, "This Day is Ours”
― Gretchen Jeannette, This Day is Ours

“They were not, I am certain almost, first-rate gentlemen. (How different from our other officers.) But they are gone to Virginia, where they may sing, dance, and eat turkey hash and fry'd hominy all day long, if they choose.”
― Sally Wister, Sally Wister's Journal: A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778