“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
“Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!”
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“May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!”
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“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.”
― Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
― Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
“it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.”
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
― Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
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