The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
“In the midst of death’s relentless power, I yet among the living stand” — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
